Road safety charity Brake has recently highlighted a number of worrying trends with regards to the safety of the UK’s roads.
The first area of concern for the charity is the number of deaths and serious injuries that are still occurring on the roads as a result of drink driving. Government figures show that in 2013, 240 people were killed by drivers over the legal drink drive limit, and provisional estimates for 2014 suggest that a similar number lost their lives last year as well.
The profile of Britain’s illegal drink drivers has apparently remained largely the same: