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Road Safety Bill [HL]

I have added my name to two of the   amendments in the name of the noble Earl, Lord   Dundee, and I support him completely. As it turns out, I have supported a number of other amendments, despite not having added my name to them. I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, in her story about Australia. She may well know that the state of Victoria has targeted drink-driving harshly. The number of people who drink and drive there has fallen not quite to zero but very close to it. I should like to recount a story regarding a television programme many years ago about random breath testing in New South Wales. It was about a police crew doing random breath testing and various other things, but the random breath testing is what I shall address today. They had the cars queuing up for the drivers to be tested, and one driver said, ““Can you please hurry it up because my wife is in labour?””. They said, ““Oh, is she?””, and they went along and had a word with the lady. She was in labour, and she got a police escort—so there are benefits.