Drunk driving, now you lose the car
Rules of the Road more severe with those who exceed the limit of 1.5 grams per liter. The cars will be confiscated or auction will be used by law enforcement
ROME - BOYS eye: if you got drunk (and then tours) are troubles. Since yesterday, more than ever. The decree
Security Act published Monday in the Official Gazette and in force since yesterday just expected between first seizure and then - after a few months with the sentence - the confiscation of the car for anyone caught driving with an alcohol content higher 1, 5 g / l. Confiscation means: expropriation in favor of the state final. That is, not that car will be yours and you buy another one if and when you want, you will return to ride. There is one exception: no forfeiture if the vehicle belongs to someone else. But it is the only exception, for the rest of the iron fist is imposed by the new government. I am therefore coming unpleasant surprises for thousands of Italians and a hoard of new (in car park) to state coffers.
IF BOTH gives me so much already yesterday (first day of implementation of the new standard) thirty motorists have probably said goodbye to their car. This figure is the son of the following estimate: in the last sixteen months, almost 15 thousand Italians were surprised driving with a rate higher than 1, 5 g / l and the daily average is just 30. He rises steeply, this average, if we take into consideration only the weekend, where the controls - and maybe the euphoria alcohol - rises. Do you think that in just the first four months of 2008 (the nearly 60 thousand checks from Friday evening to Sunday evening by police and carabinieri), more than 8 thousand people were positive all'etilometro and 2300 had a rate higher than 1, 5 g / l. It means: 143 people per weekend. More than seventy per day. More than double the average. A massacre of cars and a financial drain for many Italians (and a lot of young people).
NOW you readers will ask: But how do you get an alcohol content of 1.5 g / l? When you are in danger of being truly 'snatch' state (correctly, mind you) their car?
The table on the right we propose a simulation in which we took for example, two children (one man and one woman) 25. Having said that there is no infallible rule and a thousand variables - first of all the staff metabolism - may affect the test, but it is clear that getting in trouble must have been drinking, and a lot. Typically, the man "resist" Moreover, the woman a little 'less.
Another question that many of you may ask is: what will happen but the fifteen cars each year (we hope that the number is lower) will become the property of the state? Answer: auction will, or will be used by the police. For those that will be auctioned, many hope that the proceeds end up in a trust fund for road safety.
The 'revolution' which we illustrate in these pages, is a key step in the fight against alcohol and road safety, the fight over the last two years has begun to give excellent results, thanks to the intensification of controls by the police, who went from 200 thousand in 2005 to 800 thousand poor in 2007. And for 2008 you might even get to 2 million.
But other countries - see France, or see Spain - against the breathalyzer tests are also 8milioni year. It is not a 'persecution' means all studies show that a good 30% of accidents, especially at night and on weekends, is caused by driving under the influence of alcohol. Or even worse, under the influence of drugs. Almost two thousand Italians die every year on the roads because of alcohol or drugs.
