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BUDAPEST -- Hungarian drivers who have consumed any amount of alcohol will have their licenses taken immediately.

"Starting today, the changes in the Law on Traffic will obligate policemen to immediately confiscate the driving license belonging to any person who tests positive for alcohol," the neighboring country's Ministry of the Interior announced in Budapest Sunday.

Authorities hope that the new, literally zero alcohol tolerance legislation, will significantly reduce the number of traffic accidents.

In 2006, Hungary reported 21,000 accidents, more than 10 percent of those caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol, resulting in 154 deaths.

During the same year, 1.4 million checks performed by traffic police resulted in 42,000 positive alcohol tests.

But the laws enforced then only stripped drunk drivers of their licenses after a lengthy procedure.