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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Charity issues drink drive warning  Drink driving motorists are increasingly less worried about the prospect of a personal injury claim being lodged against them, new figures suggest. According to the road safety charity Brake, a large proportion of drivers feel there is little prospect of being caught if they are over the limit. The group notes that Home Office figures reveal just two per cent of motorists were breathalysed in 2009, the last year for which data is available. Research carried out by Brake and Direct Line suggests drivers are cottoning on to the trend, with 53 per cent saying there is less than a one in four chance of being caught. A third of motorists think there is less than a one in ten chance of being stopped by police. To combat the problem, Brake wants to see police allowed to randomly stop drivers and for the legal alcohol limit to be reduced to 20mg alcohol per 100ml of blood. Julie Townsend, campaigns director at the charity, said: "The government needs to urgently strengthen our position on drink driving before more lives are lost." The news comes after Brake revealed that over three million drivers have been involved in an accident with an uninsured driver. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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