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Accident claims from road injuries may be reduced after an influential review called for the drink drive limit to be lowered.
The North Review of Drink and Drug Driving, carried out by Sir Peter North, recommends lowering the drink drive limit from 80mg/100ml to 50mg/100ml, in a move that could significantly reduce the number of accident claims.
As many as 168 deaths could be prevented in the first year of a reduction, rising to 303 by the sixth year of a law change, according to estimates from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence.
The report also calls for a framework to tackle the growing drug-driving trend.
Sir Peter commented: "The focus should be on public safety. Any new offence should therefore focus on establishing levels of drugs in the blood at which significant impairment - and therefore, risk to public safety - can be reasonably assumed, as is the case now for drink-driving."
The report was commissioned by the last transport minister Lord Adonis and has been delivered to the Department for Transport (DfT).
Officials from the DfT recently called for a review of the motorcycle driving test after concerns were raised about accidents.
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