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Re: A Quick Question About Drink Driving In Tenerife
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Re: A Quick Question About Drink Driving In Tenerife
I don't think they have hard and fast clear cut rules like the UK Colleen.
As far as I understand they still give you the test on the street as the UK. But here they have mobile units. So what you would normally be arrested for and taken to a police station in the UK. Here they do it on the street.
The level of the test then predicts what happens next. I believe that if the reading is low you receive a fixed penalty and points. There must be some sort of sliding scale as to the amount of the penalty and the points awarded. However There is a threshold that when passed the police must put you before a judge.
The judge then awards the penalty.
I have posted before about a family friend who was caught drunk driving. As far as I understand he was over the limit but not paralytic. He was sent before a judge. And received, if my memory serves me right, 800 euro fine, 8 month ban and 6 months community service. Wife's in bed she would know exactly. Afraid I cannot remember exactly. The whole process took a couple of months to be sorted. In the mean time he was free to drive.
I must add this is what I have been told.
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Re: A Quick Question About Drink Driving In Tenerife
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Originally Posted by pelinor
I don't think they have hard and fast clear cut rules like the UK Colleen.
As far as I understand they still give you the test on the street as the UK. But here they have mobile units. So what you would normally be arrested for and taken to a police station in the UK. Here they do it on the street.
The level of the test then predicts what happens next. I believe that if the reading is low you receive a fixed penalty and points. There must be some sort of sliding scale as to the amount of the penalty and the points awarded. However There is a threshold that when passed the police must put you before a judge.
The judge then awards the penalty.
I have posted before about a family friend who was caught drunk driving. As far as I understand he was over the limit but not paralytic. He was sent before a judge. And received, if my memory serves me right, 800 euro fine, 8 month ban and 6 months community service. Wife's in bed she would know exactly. Afraid I cannot remember exactly. The whole process took a couple of months to be sorted. In the mean time he was free to drive.
I must add this is what I have been told.
My question answered P ............. I know someone who was caught drunk while driving and they're still driving.
A Quick Question About Drink Driving In Tenerife 
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