🍺 In Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania you can’t have a single drop of alcohol behind the wheel. In the UK and USA? Up to 0.8‰ is perfectly legal.
Europe’s approach to drink driving is surprisingly divided. While Central and Eastern Europe enforce zero tolerance, most of Western Europe allows 0.5‰ — roughly one beer or a small glass of wine.
Key findings:
🔸 Zero tolerance (0.0‰): Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania — not even a sip
🔸 Very strict (0.2‰): Sweden, Poland, Norway, Estonia — practically zero after any drink
🔸 European standard (0.5‰): Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and most of the continent
🔸 Most lenient (0.8‰): UK, Malta, USA, Mexico — nearly double the European average
🔸 Japan (0.3‰) is stricter than most of Europe
🔸 Albania (0.1‰) has one of the strictest limits on the continent
The trend across Europe is clear: limits are getting lower. Sweden dropped from 0.5‰ to 0.2‰ and saw drunk driving fatalities fall by 25%. Several countries are now debating whether to follow suit.
One thing is universal though — no amount of alcohol makes you a better driver.
📌 Source: ETSC, WHO, national legislation (2024)
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7 Comments
0.00 and 0.02 are gay as fuck. Wtf is this represion
0 should be the standard
Its funny cuz in Czechia we drink beer instead of water and we have to have 0% alcohol in our blood
What's the music on the background?
romania is 0%?pfft every romanian drinks first then drives
Hell Yeah 0.0 but in Hungary we born with alcohol in our blod so…..
France is 0.37 not 0.5