Our campaign to reduce the drink driving limit - sign up

This week the Herald on Sunday - in conjunction with nzherald.co.nz and the New Zealand Herald - has launched a major campaign to persuade the Government that now is the time to lower the drink driving limit.

The pledge

Two Drinks Max
"Starting now, I will do my part to make New Zealand's roads safer by not driving after more than two standard alcoholic drinks."

How you can sign up

On Facebook: Click here to support the campaign and share your thoughts.

Don't have a Facebook page? Click here to sign up to the campaign.

What else you can do

Read all the stories we have prepared on this important debate here.

Take part in our poll here.

You can also comment on this debate in our Your Views section here.

Why we want the law changed

Drink driving has devastated the lives of thousands of New Zealanders who have been killed or injured by drink drivers. Our polls show the majority of New Zealanders want the drink/driving limit lowered but the Government has made no move.

We are calling for the drink driving limit to be lowered from 0.08mg to 0.05mg (of alcohol per 100 ml of blood), the same as Australia and most of Europe.

We also want to help change attitudes, by encouraging New Zealanders like yourself to commit to regulating their own drink/driving behaviour by signing up online to our pledge. Our aim is to gather thousands of signatures to add weight to our message to Government that the blood/alcohol limit needs to be lowered before more lives are wrecked.