Drink driving.

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Driven after a pint, but that's it, and even then I'll wait a while and have a coke or similar.

EDIT - have probably unwittingly driven the morning after and shouldn't have, though I leave it as late as possible and avoid drinking if I know I'm up early.
 
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Work party when I was 27. Drunk a lot, walked back to the office (was a pub close to the office) knowing full well I was still hammered but sobering fast. Got into my car and decided to sleep for an hour to work the haze off a bit more. Woke up four hours later (around 7am) and felt sober. Drove home just fine and fell into bed sleeping another couple of hours. When I woke up, only then I know I was fully sober. So yea, I drove back whilst still slightly drunk. It scared the bejesus out of me as I was so sure I was sober enough to drive. Nothing happened but it could've so easily.

Never again.
 
Used to work in a brewery, would have a bottle or two (8%+) after work and then drive back to where I stayed. It was pretty much a straight line, in a small town however if I had a few more then I would just walk back.
Only once do I remember driving the next morning and feeling it was a bit daft.
Earlier today, I moved a car in a carpark after 2 pints.
I wouldn't drive when drunk.
 
Did much I regret when I was younger luckily no one was hurt, injured or offended, age brings consideration for your actions, I will have a pint then drive as it's perfectly legal, sometimes two but not Stella etc only 4% bitters over a couple of hours with a meal.
 
Quite often i will have a pint at the pub and drive, if i am at a family do for 5/6 hours with a meal i have been known to push it to three.

Personally i think everyone knows their limits (in a serious way, not "i'm gods gift" etc) and mine in most circumstances is no more than 3 units~

You cannot put an arbitrary figure i.e. 5 units as it is down to the individual and over what time period.

If i am honest, i think the attitude towards drunk driving (over the prescibed limit) isn't always representative of the facts but i can't deny it is for the greater good.

Personally i am quite happy they way the law stands, i can have a pint of bitter or several the night before and drive (within reason).

Those who want to drink 3/4/9 pints in a short space of time always will unfortunately.
 
aproctor said:
You cannot put an arbitrary figure i.e. 5 units as it is down to the individual and over what time period.

If i am honest, i think the attitude towards drunk driving (over the prescibed limit) isn't always representative of the facts but i can't deny it is for the greater good.
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It can only be worse than 5 units though. If you eat a meal just before drinking the food soaks the alcohol and thus it takes longer to pass the body. Same with body fat, the blood cannot travel through fat and that's how alcohol travels through your system.

As long as you know how many units you've potentially had and how long it takes for those to be removed from your system then that's fine. How sober and capable you feel is not an excuse in the eyes of the law. You might feel fine after 3 pints in a couple of hours but for your average larger you're going to be on or around the limit. Is that worth losing your licence over, regardless of the safety aspect?

The fact is I don't know anyone who understands the units system and what they drink equates to before they drive. I've only found out because I woke up in a police cell feeling sorry for myself and wanted my licence back quicker. But I'm very glad I took the course and have learnt all this regardless of the 25% reduction in ban. The easy way out is to not drink and then drive within a hand full of hours. Where I live a driving licence is worth more than a GSCE to me, the cost of alternate transport pales in comparison! It's a shame the information on my course isn't in some way involuntary published in pubs and other places.
 
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Dup said:
It can only be worse than 5 units though.
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I'm not sure what you are referring too?

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As long as you know how many units you've potentially had and how long it takes for those to be removed from your system then that's fine. How sober and capable you feel is not an excuse in the eyes of the law. You might feel fine after 3 pints in a couple of hours but for your average larger you're going to be on or around the limit. Is that worth losing your licence over, regardless of the safety aspect?
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That is what i said.....

You know your limits i.e. you know what will put your over the limit. Whether you follow your own advice is another story.
 
We need more guilty people if we hope to beat PH 64% guilty!
 
Mopeds when I was a kid (up to about 18 or 19) - am now 36.

Didn't start driving cars until a bit later and have never drunk anything and driven a car.
 
I suspect when I was younger I might have been over the limit the morning after but I've NEVER had more than 1.5 pints in a night and driven.
 
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I'm not sure what you are referring too?
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I mean that the 5 units is for your average male. Your body will only store it for longer from there in theory. It's in no way an accurate system, but it illustrates it easily.

For women it's much tougher. One drink can put them over the limit. A whole bottle of 12% wine is 9 units which takes 10 hours to leave the system, a long time and it doesn't take much to neck a bottle of wine for some individuals. Really makes you think how many people are actually over the limit, unknowingly, every day.
 
In this country I won't have more than one pint if I'm driving later on, when I worked abroad I've had much more but it was more acceptable there (and then)
 
...actually just remembered the exception, Le Man's 1990 I drove around the circuit internal roads after 600000 cans of Stella.
 
Never knowingly but suspect a few morning afters I would have been close. Though the one time 1 did crash the morning after I got breathalysed and came up all clean, so maybe I feel worse longer than I am drunk.
 
Might of in the past, don't know for sure as I'd get a lift / taxi / walk if I felt drunk. Wouldn't risk it these days though as the penalty and stigma is just too high.

I'd not feel guilt for having a blood alcohol reading above an arbitrary number though. Guilt for actually crashing / hurting somebody sure but making a crime out of an increased potential of hurting somebody is too 'minority report' for me.
 
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