Today's papers show increasing interest in zero alcohol levels for motorists and bike riders; the level for truck drivers is already 0.002 and many think that this should be the limit for all drivers.

But would this lessen the road toll?

It sure would. Another stupidity is not banning people that are serial speeding offenders. Some should never be behind the wheel ever again. Until that happens there will be unnecessary deaths and injuries.

I won't go along with banning people who are caught speeding, speed is OK especially where the majority are caught.

A visible police presence will stop speeding, so to increase revenue speed traps are set but if the speeding is a danger then setting traps instead of stopping the speeding is an admission that speeding in such a place is safe.

"But would this lessen the road toll?"

Nup - there's not even any evidence that reducing the level from .08 to .05 had any affect on the road toll.

Heh, but it'll be good for revenue raising, and that's really what its all about anyway.

Some drivers flout the 0.05 limit now. They would flout zero as well. We need serious penalties - mandatory jail. There is no point in taking licences away; they will drive without them, still pissed. The law, as in most areas, is a joke.

"...there's not even any evidence that reducing the level from .08 to .05 had any affect on the road toll."

"The Centre for Road Safety Executive Director Bernard Carlon says Australia reached this level gradually introducing 0.08 alcohol tolerance at first. That was in 1980 and the public reaction to the measures seemed to find them too stringent.[subsequently dropped to .05]

But 35 years on, the drink driving death toll dropped from 44 per cent to 30 per cent nationally with some cities even below 20 per cent."
http://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/too-high-30-of-fatal-crashes-in-australia-are-due-to-drink-driving