Drink-driving casualties up
3rd September 1998, Page 7
3rd September 1998
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• A quarter of all drivers killed last year in road accidents were over the legal drink-drive limit, Department of Transport statistics show.
There was also an increase in casualties from drink-drive accidents between 1993 and 1996. The number of deaths in 1996 rose for the first time in four years.
Provisional estimates for last year show no major reduction in the number of deaths. On average more than 10 people die every week in drink-drive accidents and over 300 are injured.
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