Drink driving: what's the punishment?

I always have a go at the police where cars are concerend however drink/drugged driving punishments need to be a lot worse than they currently are
 
It's simply too easy to get away with breaking the rules of the road in the UK, too few police. When I was driving in the UK I was never breathalised, in Aus they have random roadside testing where they will pull in almost every car and test the driver.

I probably get tested once or twice a month, much better system because they actually catch people.
 
Or until he kills someone, they'd catch him then too.

just get him shopped, same outcome and if it would ruin his life then he should have thought about that beforehand.
 
Indeed, shop him in. If he hurts someone you'll feel like a grade A ****, and if you're waiting for him to get caught anyway then the outcome will be the same. Either that or go all american on him and arrange an intervention.
 
rexehuk said:
Oh how I've been tempted... but it would ruin their life as they drive to work etc. I'll just wait until Christmas this year and wait until he gets caught in a roadblock, we can only hope.
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Most a police officers get quite angry at drink drivers. I'm sure the parents of a 7 year old child who nearly died a few months back in my area would have liked you to tell the police about any drunk drivers you know of. Unfortunately nobody did on her area and now this young girl is disabled through being hit by a drunk driver. She'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life and miss so much a child should experience. If only someone had the courage to prevent it.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Not really. We don't usually do a roadside breath test until 20mins after the last drink and then it'll be extra before you get put on an intoximenter. That's too long for mouth alcohol to skew the results.
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Surely that is not fair as the alcohol would not have been in your system and effecting you at the point of driving?
 
TS7 said:
What is the criteria for a reliable witness?

If for example person X has fallen out with person Y who lives opposite. Person X comes back drunk from a night at out 2am, gets dropped off by a taxi and goes inside. Person Y see's this out the window and to screw him over calls the police and claims he saw person X drive home.

Person Y is a Doctor, well known in the area.

What would happen?
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Taxi driver would surely confirm what happened and Dr would be prosecuted for lying
 
TS7 said:
What is the criteria for a reliable witness?

If for example person X has fallen out with person Y who lives opposite. Person X comes back drunk from a night at out 2am, gets dropped off by a taxi and goes inside. Person Y see's this out the window and to screw him over calls the police and claims he saw person X drive home.

Person Y is a Doctor, well known in the area.

What would happen?
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The relationship that exists between X and Y mean that they are not independent and that would be taken into account on their reliability.
 
I'd not hesitate nor feel bad by shopping any drink driver I have knowledge of. Not a second of remorse over it, regardless of who they were.

Saying that, my first line of attack would be to try and stop them in the first place from doing something so utterly retarded.
 
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As a side note, just so I don't appear quite so holier than thou, as a 40 year old bloke now I look back and wonder if I was ever over the limit the morning after in my earlier life. I reckon I would probably have been on a few occasions?

Far more concious of that now than I was say at Uni in my early 20s.
 
The odd thing I don't get is why is insurance not massively expensive for people with DD on their licence?

My friend got banned for this, got his licence back with zero no claims as he smashed through a brick wall when he got caught and hopped straight in a 106 gti for 1200 quid a year at 25 years old, and now with a year no claims insures a Audi S3 for £1400.

While I pay £600 to insure a bloody diesel peugeot 406 with 7 years no claims, no accidents and a clean licence in the same post code.
 
I have always thought that if you get caught for drink driving you should be forced to give up alcohol for 10 years. you should also have to take regular random breath tests if you choose to continue driving after a ban.
 
I think the punishments are pretty good as they are, the main deterrent really is the social stigma that has been successfully attached to drink driving imo.
 
Drink drive, face the punishment, could have been a lot worse if somebody was killed. Another one of my hates it mobile phone users, the punishment for that is not enough.
 
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