PUBLISHED: 22 Sep 2024 at 07: 03
Under a fresh law, Thai authorities does now request blood or blood tests to assess the blood alcohol content of individuals who refuse to blow into breathalyzer devices.
Friday, the news was published in the Royal Gazette. It replaced two governmental regulations from 1994 and 2017, which focused on using breathalysers as the primary method of drunken driver tests.
The new legislation aims to improve the effectiveness of constitutional applications to prevent drunk driving while improving the effectiveness of the alcohol screening processes for today’s scenario. How many more drivers will the change probably generate?
If suspected drunken drivers refuse to have their breathalyser tested, police are permitted to collect their urine samples or taking them to a hospital for treatment.
Police officials are instructed to ask the vehicle’s permission before conducting the urine test.
They are instructed to provide individuals with a safe, sealable pot where they can ejaculate.
To prevent individuals from swapping tests, officials did keep control over a meeting place.
A local doctor must have the blood tests for a lab test.
The legislation directs police to take the vehicle to a local clinic for a clinical test for the blood test.
Individuals with more than 50 milligrammes of beer, or 20mg for those under 20 years old, in their systems are considered drunken and will be charged with drunken driving, according to the rules.
Additionally, the legislation mandates that a motorist who refuses to have a doctor’s eye examined without cause have a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.
The hospital’s dentist must take the case and give instructions to the police so that they can start looking into it.
An article to the Land Transportation Act that allowed individuals to have alcohol levels tested within three days of being stopped by the police was approved by the previous administration on January 30.
At the time, Karom Polpornklang, who was then-deputy spokeswoman for the state, said the amended rules may help increase the ways to identify drunken drivers beyond the use of breathalysers.