Restaurant Owner Arrested for Serving Alcohol to Drunk Driver

In Japan, a lot of people are responsible for drunk driving.
The driver, of course. The new law states zero tolerance. It's strictly enforced with cops patrolling the late-night weekend roads, and there are taxi services that will drive your car home for you if you get too drunk.

Passengers who get into a car with a drunk driver are also considered to be at fault.I forget what the exact fine amount is, but you can get penalized for getting in a car with someone who's been drinking.

Restaurants that serve alcohol to people who cause drunk driving accidents are guilty, too. Yesterday, an unlucky restaurant owner in Saitama was convicted to two years in prison when one of his customers left and got into a head-on collision that caused two deaths. I think the same laws apply in the US—I remember learning about that in bartending school a long time ago.

 

What's it like in your country?

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[krisoft]

In Hungary, only the car driver responsible, but we have double zero tolerance.
As the road code clearly describe since 1975, the only allowed alcohol% is the 0%.
It's the first "zero tolerance".
The second "zero tolerance" occurred in this year, when the government presented this rule as a brand-new idea, to show their ability to prevent deadly accidents.

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