Drink driving is driving a vehicle after consuming alcohol. There’s a certain limit of alcohol content in your blood that is allowed. If you’re found with anything above this limit, you’ll be convicted of driving under the influence. It’s hard to know exactly how much alcohol will put any one person over the limit so it’s always advisable to avoid alcohol when driving.
Being convicted of drink driving can have some very serious consequences. Even if you are not involved in an incident you can be given up to 6 months in prison, a driving ban or an unlimited fine. Other knock-on effects include significantly more expensive insurance (see below). If you cause death whilst driving under the influence, you could be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison.
You are not the only one your drink driving may affect. The Department for Transport recently released figures showing that in 2016 alone there were 9,050 casualties and 240 people were killed in drink-drive accidents.