The short answer to this is: Yes.
Drink driving carries a mandatory disqualification period, with the length of the ban depending on the level of alcohol in your system.
The minimum disqualification is 12-months (Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 section 34), but as you will see in our table below, this increases with the amount of alcohol on your breath, blood and urine samples:
The minimum period of disqualification increases to 2-years if you’ve been disqualified on two or more occasions for a period of 56 days or more within 3-years. And will increase to 3-years if in the past 10-years you’ve been convicted of any of the following offences:
● Causing death by careless driving while under the influence
● Driving or attempting to drive while unfit to do so
● Driving or attempting to drive while over the limit
● Failing to provide a specimen while suspected of driving or attempting to drive under the influence
And while drink driving is obviously a criminal offence, there are ways to avoid a drink driving charge.