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UK government launches new data strategy to tackle drink driving
Dec 1 2008, 09:51 AM
As the run-up to Christmas gets underway the government is launching a new data strategy to curb drink-driving offences, reports the BBC.
Breathalysers are being rolled out to police forces across the country which will measure the amount of alcohol a driver has consumed as well as recording on a centralised database the gender, age, ethnicity and location of the on-the-spot reading.
Personal identity verification details such as name and address will not be entered into the database as part of the roadside breath test scheme.
"Once we've got the data we can analyse it on a national scale," Inspector Paul Sellwood of Kent Police's traffic division told the BBC.
He added that the data strategy will enable police authorities to establish any patterns in drink-driving across the country, as well as establish whether particular practices by different police forces were proving more effective at catching drink drivers.
A recent study carried out by Brunel University revealed drivers who get behind the wheel with a hangover are four times more dangerous than drivers who are sober.
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