The Days Of Drinking And Driving In Ireland Are Over
If you are thinking of driving a car in Ireland you better not have a drink before getting behind the wheel. While the Irish are stereotypically depicted as heavy drinkers with a devotion to their Guinness they better not drink even one imperial pint of their celebrated beer before driving. Until recently. Ireland's legal limit for DWI was .08. Now, Ireland will become another country in Europe with a legal limit of .05 for the prosecution of driving while intoxicated cases. They will be joining Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain. What I found curious is that Lithuania's legal limit is .04 and Norway, Poland, Sweden's legal limit is .02. A true zero tolerance for drinking and driving is found in Estonia, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary.
Advocates for lowering our legal limit will certainly cite the international trend of lowering the legal limit for driving while intoxicated. I foresee the legal limit being lowered once again in Texas to 0.05 or lower within ten years. That would be the second time the legal limit will be changed since I became a lawyer.
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