{"id":352799,"date":"2019-11-16T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=352799"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:57:56","slug":"strict-new-drunk-driving-laws-proposed-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/352799\/strict-new-drunk-driving-laws-proposed-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Strict new drunk driving laws proposed for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Transport and the Road Traffic Management Corporation are reviewing South Africa’s drunk driving laws.<\/p>\n

They aim to drop the legal blood-alcohol level to 0%, meaning that drivers will not be allowed to drink alcohol and drive at all.<\/p>\n

The National Road Traffic Act (NRA) currently differentiates between normal drivers and professional drivers (those drivers who hold professional driving permits).<\/p>\n

For normal drivers, the concentration of alcohol in any blood specimen must be less than 0.05 gram per 100 millilitres, and in the case of a professional driver, less than 0.02 gram per 100 millilitres.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Weekend Argus<\/a><\/strong>, Department of Transport spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Paine said if given the green light, the new proposals will become part of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system which establishes a new demerit system.<\/p>\n

Major drunk driving\u00a0 problem<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The latest 2018\/2019 crime statistics from the South African Police Services shows that the country has a high rate of drunk driving.<\/p>\n

According to the report, there were 82,912 reported cases of drunk driving over the time period \u2013 a decrease of -3.8% compared to the 2017\/2018.<\/p>\n

However, it should be noted that the number of people driving drunk on South African roads is likely significantly higher as the above statistics only include incidents reported to the police.<\/p>\n

The majority of these cases were reported in Gauteng, followed by the KZN and the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

The area with the most reported incidents was Durban Central, followed by Point (KZN) and Germiston (Gauteng).<\/p>\n

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Read: New plan to get South Africans to use trains instead of cars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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