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Fri 01 Jan 2007Call for EU ban on alcohol for new driversWith the number of road deaths in the EU climbing to 40,000 each year, the European Parliament's transport committee has proposed that an EU-wide zero alcohol limit be imposed on all new drivers, bus drivers and those carrying hazardous goods.In a report considered by the parliament in Strasbourg this week, the committee called for a study to harmonise Europe's traffic signs and rules of the road and a general ban on overtaking for vehicles weighing more than 12 tonnes on one and two-lane roads.