{"id":164,"date":"2005-10-12T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=164"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"ff-driving-ban-now-2-tds-are-off-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/ff-driving-ban-now-2-tds-are-off-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"FF driving ban now 2 TDs are off the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eu2004.ie\/files\/index.asp?id=1129\" align=\"right\">The former government minister, Jim McDaid, has been convicted of dangerous driving and drunken driving at Naas District Court in Co Kildare and given a two year driving ban. Driving up the wrong side of a dual carrageway McDaid was more than 3 times over the limit with 267 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his sample.<\/p>\n<p>He joins North Dublin TD GV Wright who is soon to finish a 2 year ban, GV publicly admitted knocking down a woman pedestrian, nurse Anne Butler while having been driving after drinking, then providing 67 microgrammes per 100 millilitres in a breath sample, Mr Wright&#8217;s 2 year driving ban is due to end next month. Ms Butler broke her leg in 4 places and had to have 80-90 steel pins inserted in her shin bones, at the time of the incident she said &#8220;I would like to see him face-to- face to say what is the point of the Minister for Transport bringing in the points system when clearly it obviously doesn&#8217;t work with his colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>18 road fatalities were reported in the first nine days of October,,, 6 last Saturday in McDaid&#8217;s home County Donegal. There were 3 road fatalities over night [12\/Oct] the daily average is one road fatality per day.<\/p>\n<p>130,000 are arrested each year for driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. According to the Medical Bureau of Road Safety 90% of blood and urine specimens and 81% of breath specimens analysed in 2002 were above the alcohol limit for driving.<\/p>\n<p>so what are the limits a TD can take?<br \/>blood  80 mg\/100ml<br \/>urine 107 mg\/100ml<br \/>breath 35 ug\/100ml<\/p>\n<p>the  mean alcohol level in blood samples, was 174 milligrammes in 2002, and 57 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres in breath samples in the same year. <br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former government minister, Jim McDaid, has been convicted of dangerous driving and drunken driving at Naas District Court in Co Kildare and given a two year driving ban. Driving up the wrong side of a dual carrageway McDaid was more than 3 times over the limit with 267 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/ff-driving-ban-now-2-tds-are-off-the-road\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FF driving ban now 2 TDs are off the road<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}