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From: bod on 6 Aug 2010 06:06
The number of people killed in road accidents caused by drink-driving
has fallen to an all-time low, provisional government figures show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883114

Bearing in mind these impressively low figures, why on earth is there a
call to lower the DD limit?
Are drivers expected to behave like puritans?

Bod
From: GT on 6 Aug 2010 06:19
"bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8c254gF5s2U1(a)mid.individual.net...
> The number of people killed in road accidents caused by drink-driving has
> fallen to an all-time low, provisional government figures show.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883114
>
> Bearing in mind these impressively low figures, why on earth is there a
> call to lower the DD limit?
> Are drivers expected to behave like puritans?

2 quotes from the start of that report:
"Deaths fell by 5%, from 400 in 2008 to 380 in 2009"... 4 lines later...
"The number of accidents involving a death remained at 350".

Something doesn't add up!


From: bod on 6 Aug 2010 06:30
GT wrote:
> "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:8c254gF5s2U1(a)mid.individual.net...
>> The number of people killed in road accidents caused by drink-driving has
>> fallen to an all-time low, provisional government figures show.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883114
>>
>> Bearing in mind these impressively low figures, why on earth is there a
>> call to lower the DD limit?
>> Are drivers expected to behave like puritans?
>
> 2 quotes from the start of that report:
> "Deaths fell by 5%, from 400 in 2008 to 380 in 2009"... 4 lines later...
> "The number of accidents involving a death remained at 350".
>
> Something doesn't add up!
>
>
I assume it's a misprint and should've read 380.

Bod
From: Ian Dalziel on 6 Aug 2010 07:48
On 6 Aug, 11:19, "GT" <a...(a)b.c> wrote:
> "bod" <bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> news:8c254gF5s2U1(a)mid.individual.net...
>
> > The number of people killed in road accidents caused by drink-driving has
> > fallen to an all-time low, provisional government figures show.
>
> >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883114
>
> > Bearing in mind these impressively low figures, why on earth is there a
> > call to lower the DD limit?
> > Are drivers expected to behave like puritans?
>
> 2 quotes from the start of that report:
> "Deaths fell by 5%, from 400 in 2008 to 380 in 2009"... 4 lines later...
> "The number of accidents involving a death remained at 350".
>
> Something doesn't add up!

Try "involving one or more deaths"?
From: Ian Jackson on 6 Aug 2010 07:53
In message <8c26ivFc89U1(a)mid.individual.net>, bod
<bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> writes
>GT wrote:
>> "bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:8c254gF5s2U1(a)mid.individual.net...
>>> The number of people killed in road accidents caused by
>>>drink-driving has fallen to an all-time low, provisional government
>>>figures show.
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883114
>>>
>>> Bearing in mind these impressively low figures, why on earth is
>>>there a call to lower the DD limit?
>>> Are drivers expected to behave like puritans?
>> 2 quotes from the start of that report:
>> "Deaths fell by 5%, from 400 in 2008 to 380 in 2009"... 4 lines
>>later... "The number of accidents involving a death remained at 350".
>> Something doesn't add up!
>I assume it's a misprint and should've read 380.
>
Is there any way to distinguish between accidents and deaths which
occurred because the driver was over the limit, and those in which the
driver coincidentally happened to be over the limit?
--
Ian
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