Posted 20 мая 2010,, 05:09
Published 20 мая 2010,, 05:09
Modified 17 сентября 2022,, 12:21
Updated 17 сентября 2022,, 12:21
VLADIVOSTOK. May 20. VOSTOK-MEDIA – The State Duma has passed unanimously a bill in the first reading that introduces a policy of zero-tolerance for drinking when driving a car.
The Presidential bill prohibits driving with any level of alcohol in your blood. The current limit of blood alcohol content is 0.03 %, or the equivalent of having a glass of dry wine. As a rule, when Russian motorists drink a little of alcohol they cannot stop and continue drinking while driving, which typically results in car accidents.
Road police department issued a report showing there were 11,475 drunk driving accidents in Russia in 2009, leaving 2059 killed and more than 18,000 injured. Each year, road police officers detain about a million of drunken drivers.