Criminalising the driver who drinks a pint after work is not the answer to road deaths

IN his letter (August 20), Dr Declan Bedford refers to research in respect of the effect of reducing the legal limit for drink-driving.

In his research, deaths were considered to be alcohol-related if the blood alcohol level of the driver was 20mg per 100ml or higher.

The presence of 20mg could be caused by the consumption of products that have trace alcohol in their composition and to assume that because that level of alcohol is present in the blood was the cause of an accident is at best misguided and at worst mischievous and misleading.