Four children were killed on the weekend when an alleged drunk driver accidentally mowed them down in Sydney, with some organisations subsequently calling for a zero blood-alcohol driving limit to be put in place.
Anthony, 13, Angelina, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 9, and Veronique Sakr, 11, lost their lives, while three others are in various conditions in hospital.
Authorities claim Samuel William Davidson, 29, was three times over the legal limit on Saturday night when the car he was in careened off the road and ploughed into the seven children in Oatlands. He has since been charged with 20 offences after being arrested by police.
The current blood-alcohol limit in New South Wales, where the accident happened, is 0.05, however there have been calls to change that to prevent accidents like this in the future.
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The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons claims having a zero blood-alcohol content rule in the state would be a better course of action.
The college pointed towards the 40 percent of road accidents that occur every year which involve drink driving.
The college's National Trauma Committee chair Dr John Crozier told the Daily Telegraph: "We have it as a requirement for all commercial drivers and poignant deaths like this, it's reasonable to further explore whether we should have a zero blood-alcohol requirement for all drivers.
"I think it's right as you look at this tragedy that any further way of reducing the risk of alcohol affecting the behaviour of the driver - and it does - should be explored."
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According to 10 Daily, both Brazil and Chile, who have introduced strict rules about drink driving, didn't notice a change in fatalities.
On the flip side, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania have changed their laws and have seen a change. So there is an argument for both.
The mother of three of the children who died gave a heartbreaking statement to reporters after the crash.
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Leila Geagea Abdallah said: "To be fully honest with you, it feels very unreal, I still don't feel it's true, I feel that they are still with me - I'm still waiting for them to come home.
"The guy, I know he was (allegedly) drunk, driving on this street. Right now I can't hate him. I don't want to see him, (but) I don't hate him," she said.
"I think in my heart, I forgive him, but I want the court to be fair. It's all about fairness. I'm not going to hate him, because that's not who we are."
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