Lowering booze level 'will save 14 lives a year'
5:00AM Saturday May 12, 2007
By Juliet Rowan
Breath and blood alcohol limits should be drastically cut, says NZ's top traffic policeman.
National road policing manager Superintendent Dave Cliff says the country's limits are out of step with those of other nations.
And, he says, a lower limit will help reduce the 30 per cent of road deaths caused by drink drivers.
He believes lower breath and blood alcohol limits will save at least 14 lives a year.
Test results made public yesterday revealed repeat drink driver Gordon Armstrong was significantly over the limit when he killed himself and three motorcyclists near Rotorua on April 29.
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