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‘If you’re over the alcohol limit, you’re over the limit’: Ross wants more support for drink-driving

TRANSPORT MINISTER SHANE ROSS is on a collision course with rural TDs and Fianna Fáil over his new drink-driving law.

Ross is expected to seek permission from his Cabinet colleagues today for a free vote in the Dáil on the issue.

The new law will see drink drivers automatically disqualified from driving when caught over the alcohol limit.

The latest figures show there were 188 road deaths last year, an increase of 26 on 2015.

A Road Safety Authority (RSA) report revealed that between 2008 and 2012, alcohol was a contributory factor in 38% of all fatal collisions.

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Source: Christina Finn,The Journal.ie, 28/02/17

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