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Vic Police want 0.02 alcohol limit

Enjoying a glass or two of wine or beer with dinner before driving home could be history if Victorian police are successful with a proposal to reduce the legal blood alcohol limit.

Inspector Martin Boorman says drivers who blow the legal limit of 0.05 are twice as likely to be involved in road trauma.

He says a new limit of 0.02 will reduce fatalities and serious injuries, while giving police some leeway on motorists who drink and drive.

“We have to give up sometimes a little bit of our personal freedoms to make the place that we live in a better place to be,” Inspector Boorman told reporters on Thursday.

Insp Boorman says 20 per cent of fatal crashes in Victoria involved alcohol, down from more than 50 per cent in the 1980s.

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