Drink road deaths up.THE number of alcohol- related deaths on UK roads has reached a 12-year high, figures showed yesterday. Of 1,749 road fatalities involving drink in 2002, 23 per cent of victims would have failed a breath test. The Department of Transport said 42 per cent of the 292 pedestrians killed were over the legal limit, as were 19 per cent of drivers and motorcycle motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900. riders. Adrian Walsh, of RoadSafe, said drink limits had become blurred blur v. blurred, blur·ring, blurs v.tr. 1. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure. 2. To smear or stain; smudge. 3. , adding: "The adage that a couple of pints and you are OK to drive is no longer acceptable." |
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