Remember: when driving, there is no SAFE limit, so leave the car at home.

Could you live with the consequences of a drink drive crash for the rest of your life?
A drink drive crash is no accident - there is a simple choice to make. Drink or drive – don’t do both.

The current legal limit for driving in the UK is:

• 35µg alcohol per 100ml breath
• 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood
• 107mg alcohol per 100ml urine

What does this mean to me? 
Sorry but we cannot give an easy answer because everyone is different... body size, metabolism, fitness, even down to what we have eaten that day... all of these factors influence how our body will react to alcohol.

Even a small amount of alcohol will affect driving ability. Just one drink can make it more difficult to judge speed and distance accurately. And reaction times will be slower - which increases stopping distance. What’s more, after a drink drivers tend to take more risks and be over-confident - putting themselves and others in danger.

Just think of some of the consequences:

• Living with the knowledge that you have KILLED or SERIOUSLY injured another person
• Being seriously injured - possibly disabled - yourself
  
• The effect on family life
  
• The loss of licence (for at least one year)
  
• A criminal record – a drink drive conviction stays on a licence for 10 years
  
• An increase in the cost of insurance cover
  
• Remember, when driving there is no SAFE limit - so leave the car at home.

The Glasgow drink drive offender programme

• This programme is a Government approved rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Since 1997, 26 courses have taken place and 211 offenders have completed the programme.
  
• Research shows that offenders attending the course have improved attitudes and that the re-offending rate of those who did not attend the course is almost three times the rate of those who do.
  
• The Court may offer convicted drink drivers attendance on the programme. If they complete it they are entitled to a reduction of up to a quarter in their period of disqualification. A fee of £150 applies.

For information about the programme contact 07956 133998, www.gddop.co.uk