SUSSEX Police issued a stark warning earlier this year that they would be targeting drink-drivers and quite right too.

Nobody could say they weren’t warned yet it is patently clear there are still those prepared to chance it, regardless of the potential consequences.

In reality, there is no “safe” limit because any intake of alcohol impairs a driver’s reactions to a certain degree.

Much of the carnage on our roads is caused by drink-drivers and law-abiding motorists should be delighted that police are taking a zero tolerance approach.

The Argus regularly prints lists of those who have been caught and subsequently convicted in court in the hope that naming and shaming them will ensure they don’t reoffend in future.

However, whether the punishment fits the crime remains open to debate, especially when cars, in the wrong hands, are effectively killing machines.

There have been calls in certain quarters for anyone caught drink-driving on more than one occasion to be banned from the roads for life.

It is a hardline approach but equally, as it stands, the UK has one of the highest legal alcohol thresholds for drivers in Europe and understandably there have been calls for it to be lowered.

Indeed, many campaigners want the law changed so that any alcohol reading will result in prosecution.

Clearly something has to be done, but the fact of the matter is most adults are well aware of how much they have had to drink.

The message is simple. If you are on a night out and want to have a few drinks, take a bus or taxi.