§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Minister of Technology how his Department's expenditure in 1967–68 on sup-
294Wfatal or serious accidents whose blood/alcohol level is over the prescribed limit because the driver himself may have been killed or injured too seriously for a breath test to be administered, or other circumstances may make a breath test impracticable. But in 1968, 182 of the drivers involved in fatal accidents who could be breath-tested and 1,321 of those involved in serious injury accidents returned a positive reading at the roadside test. For all accidents the comparable figure was 6,500.
Figures relating to blood/alcohol levels are not available for earlier years, because before the Road Safety Act, 1967 came into force the police had no power to require a breath test from a driver involved in an accident.