24 January 2020

South Africa to introduce a zero tolerance drink-driving limit! [update]

update (05 February 2020): According to businesstech.co.za, South Africa's Road Traffic Management Corporation (RMTC) "intends to push through on it plans to introduce harsher punishments for drunk driving. This will include a plan to push driving under the influence from a schedule 2 offence to a schedule 5 offence, placing drunk driving in the same ‘category’ as rape and murder crimes". [src.]

South Africa's Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, has announced that the country's strict new driving laws will be introduced in June 2020. The new Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act will include a 0% legal blood-alcohol limit, meaning that drivers will not be allowed to drink alcohol and drive at all.
As of now, the blood alcohol content (BAC) in
South Africa must be less than 0.05 gram per 100 millilitres (0.05%) for normal drivers and less than 0.02 gram per 100 millilitres for professional drivers (0.02%).



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