Alcohol at the wheel: Schnieder does not want a regulation for 0.0 per thousand in traffic

Federal Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder does not want to reduce the border for alcohol at the wheel to 0.0 per thousand. “Of course, I recommend that you get to the wheel without alcohol,” the CDU politician told the Funke media group’s newspapers. However, he considers the current 0.5-promille limit to be “sufficient and targeted”.

“On many social occasions, you can join in courtesy and take a sip – without endangering road traffic,” said Schnieder.

The Minister believes that another drug is more problematic: “I am very critical at cannabis. I think the effect in traffic is relatively unpredictable. We have to take a closer look at this in this election period.”

Speed ​​limit superfluous – rapidly driving anyway hardly possible anyway

A speed limit does not consider Schnieder necessary. “The average speed on German highways is not even 115 kilometers per hour,” he told the newspapers. There are many speed limits, and there are also construction sites and traffic jams. “In Germany you can only drive really quickly on a few routes. So I think a general speed limit on motorways is superfluous.”

No driving tests for seniors

The minister, who drives an electric car privately in his homeland – the Eifel – sees, the minister, who drives an electric car privately: “Seniors do not run out in the road.

The Federal Statistical Office had found for 2023 that older people, measured in their share of the total population, were less frequent in traffic accidents than younger ones – for example because they no longer drive to work. However, if seniors were involved in an accident with personal damage at the wheel, according to statistics, they more often wore the main debt as a younger driver – especially if they were older than 75 years.