Alcohol and Road Safety
If you are breathalysed and are 0.08 over the blood alcohol limit, you are drink driving. If you operate a car with a blood drug concentration that exceeds the prescribed amount, this also constitutes to being over the limit.
Penalties:
First offence
80-119 mg: minimum $1,000 fine
120-159 mg: minimum $1,500 fine
160 mg or more: minimum $2,500 fine
Refuse to be tested: minimum $2,000 fine
Second offence
Minimum 30 days imprisonment
Third offence or more
Minimum 120 days imprisonment
Maximum penalties
For impaired driving causing no bodily harm or death: summary conviction carries two years less a day imprisonment, indictment carries 10 years imprisonment
Impaired driving causing bodily harm: Summary conviction for less severe injuries carries two years less a day imprisonment, indictment carries 14 years imprisonment
Impaired driving causing death: life imprisonment
