Clause 11 - Power to require specimens of breath at roadside or at hospital etc.
Road Safety Bill
3:15 pm
Mr David Jamieson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Plymouth, Devonport, Labour)
The police use good sense and discretion in such circumstances. If the car was on a busy road and was causing an obstruction, which might cause another incident, the police would move it to a safer place and also prevent the driver from taking it. It would be entirely a matter for the police at the scene. If someone was very close to home, what the right hon. Gentleman suggests might be an option. At present, the police arrest the person and take them back to the police station and do not release them until they are sober and able to drive their car. The car may be driven to the station by a police officer if there is no other appropriate place to take it.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 11 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 12 ordered to stand part of the Bill.