drink drivers are almost as low as paedos in the uk
Let alone drunk driving paedo's.....they're beneath low.
but problem is that people do think they can still drive after consuming alcohol. some can but most cant. you maybe can drive straight but your responding time is still slowed down
agree, they let the child drive and thats way more dangerous
I never understood why everyone frowns upon drinking and driving when every bar has a parking lot. Get rid of the parking lots so cars can't park at the bar. Seriously, getting arrested for drunk driving where I live in NJ will cost you around 6K after fines, lawyer fees, and the increase in car insurance. Kill or hurt someone in an accident even if it's not your fault and you are looking at jail time. One guy I know had another driver run a red light. He crashed into him while under the influence and even though the other guy went through the light he did 13 years in jail.
it's very easygo look at someone who's face looks like mince, that's had to be cut out of a car, that was sat next to someone else who had a "few drinks" who has a steering column impaled thru their chest and their legs are in a pile of bloody mush no longer resembling anything you could walk on then have to bury them
just sleep in the fucking car. why do people have such a problem with doing that? ive passed out behind the wheel lots of times, woke up at the crack of dawn with a sore back and continued on my way like nothing even happened. just like a purge in time.
not everyplace has taxi's available. Also taxi's are expensive and require you to get a ride back to pick up your car. If the states want to cry so much about the problem, how about they contribute to the solution free rides home and back to your car in the mourning. Solve a lot of drunk driving problems.
This thread also reminded me of my friend Danielle.When she was about 7 a drunk driver hit her car. Killing her brother who was about 5 at the time. He died a day or so later. Her baby sister Grace I think it was died instantly. She was a few weeks old. She was paralysed from the waist down. At 7 years of age. Just looked her up on fb there. Feel bad now.
every bar has a parking lot.
Yes that is terrible, but accidents do happen, and who is to say that the alcohol caused the accident, it could have been another motorist that cut off the intoxicated driver or any number of circumstances. Always blaming every person who crashes who drank alcohol before one being drunk is simply not a fair argument.
It has been proven how alcohol slows reactions, gives increased confidence, reduced perception etcI agree it could have happened anyway - but NOT drinking is a control that can be taken to severly reduce the risk.Drink Driving is taken very seriously here. Every time you get stopped for a moving traffic offence you get breathalysed.Some cool adverts!
The legal problem with sleeping in the car while drunk is that you have access to a car while drunk. Courts have repeatedly found that sleeping in a car drunk is the same as drunk driving. Why, because a drunk can get up at any time and still be under the influence and take off. Is it in the public interest to presume a drunk will not drive long enough to be a safe driver? What happens when a cop rolls up on a car and driver that reaks of the odor of an alcoholic beverages with a sleeping driver? Should the cop drive away and hope the driver doesn't wake up and start driving? Also how this drunk get his car to the side of the road? I'm telling you that if you sleep on the side of a highway drunk you can be found guilty of drunk driving.
