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The government is taking aim at accident claims from incidents involving drink and drug driving.
Among measures announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) to lower the traffic accident rate in the UK, breathalyser tests are to be tightened up to remove loopholes that let some offenders away free.
The package of reforms comes in response to last year's North Report on Drink and Drug Driving. The prescribed alcohol limit will not be changed.
Drivers less than 40 per cent over the legal limit will no longer have the right to opt for a blood test to confirm this.
The DfT said modern breath tests are accurate and the delay in testing can mean the person's blood/alcohol levels return to within legal limits.
Transport secretary Philip Hammond added: "We will approve drug-testing devices and change the law to speed up the testing process, ensuring the police can bring drug drivers to justice."
It comes as a new hard-shoulder running (HSR) scheme on the M6 is opened.
HSR - allowing motorists to drive on the hard shoulder during peak times - has been shown to reduce traffic accidents.
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