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Tighter traffic law reduces drunk driving accidents 22%

Thursday 10th April, 12:25 PM JST

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  • Desiderata1967 at 01:20 PM JST - 10th April

    This is good news! But I think the J-cops would do better to stop asking people to blow on their faces as a 'test' to see whether someone has been drinking or not!

    For a start, if someone drinks vodka, it is undetectable by smell alone.

    Either way, it's good to know the figures are going down.

  • Notginger at 03:15 PM JST - 10th April

    I would say those statistics a about right. I usually crash my car five times a month when drunk, but since this new campaign it's gone down to around four times. Funnily enough, however, my crash rate when sober has increased? Who'd have thought it, eh?

  • GrouchyGaijin at 03:24 PM JST - 10th April

    I hate driving. It's an endless series of deafening crashes.

  • Proffessor at 05:22 PM JST - 10th April

    It's not the drink that makes people to cause accidents but mare foolishness! It all simply boils to one thing and that's 'responsibilty'. Before the drink, while drinking and after the drink. Lack of it, even in your most Sobriety state, you're surely headed for nothing but trouble.

  • GrouchyGaijin at 08:45 PM JST - 10th April

    Actually, you know, if they actually collected all the fines from traffic tickets, they could pay off the national debt. But there's no mechanism.....

  • timeon at 11:50 PM JST - 10th April

    Desiderata, I don't think they practice the blowing to the face thing anymore, at least in Tokyo. They use some mike-looking things.

    It seems to me that they make things tougher for small offenders, while the bosozoku and all kinda other crazy guys go away. I got a speed ticket the other day on the Rainbow Bridge, I was going 73 km/h, while guys over 100 were overtaking me

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