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Celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman has called for a stricter drink-drive limit and laws to clamp down on drivers who sit in the middle lane on the motorway.

Speaking exclusively to Auto Trader, Mr Freeman has called for lawmakers to drop the permitted level of alcohol for drivers by 37% from 80ml to 50ml. He said: "At the current legal limit you are four times more likely to have an accident than when you have no alcohol in your system. How can we say four times more is OK?"

He stopped short of suggesting drivers should steer clear of drinking altogether, saying: "I'm not advocating zero tolerance."

Freeman would also like to clamp down on drivers who sit in the middle lane on the motorway when they aren't overtaking. "I think people should be prosecuted for lane hogging," he said. "It's a serious problem, it almost empowers people to drive improperly. "The highway code tells you that you can't undertake, but these people cause frustration."

Freeman would also like to see the speed limit laws heavily revised, saying a system that varied the limit depending on traffic flow and weather conditions would be his choice.

Freeman, who earned the nickname Mr Loophole for using a string of technicalities while defending a host of famous faces, feels Britain should come into line with the 80mph speed limit in Europe. He pointed out that speed limits were set back in the 1960s and that car technology has moved on a long way since then

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