Legal limits of blood alcohol concentration in UK and Europe

No matter where you drive and if you are home or in a foreign country, our best advise for you is: DO NOT DRIVE ANY VEHICLE IF YOU ARE DRINKING!

But you must know that, if you come from United Kingdom, for example, and you think that that legal limit is 0,08%, as it is in your natal country, you might be wrong in many other European countries!

We offer you a list with the five different legal limits in Europe: 

• zero tolerance: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia

• 0,02: Norway, Poland, Sweden

• 0,04: Lithuania

• 0,05: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain

• 0,08: Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, United Kingdom

Unfortunately, not everyone listen our advices and his own conscience. On 26^th July this year, a man from Poland was found by police lying in the ditch along the road, in Tarnowska Wola, in the south-east of Poland. At the hospital, there was recorded that he had 13.74 per mille of alcohol in the blood. He barely survived and lost his driver’s license.