Drink Driving Incident....

Indie

Indie

Indie

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Morning all,

As I don't post much in the motors section, just thought I'd share an experience I had last night!

Had just got back from Football training at about 10:30pm - So was sat on the sofa, relaxing for a little while watching some crap TV. (pretty sure it was Repo Man!) when all of a sudden we hear this loud bang coming from the front of our house.

I peaked through the window and saw a car on its side... Naturally, I slip on my shoes, grab my phone, out the door and start running down there. By the time I'd got down there the guy who was in the upturned car had started to climb out of the passenger door who looked pretty much unharmed... good news... that is until I got closer and could smell that he'd had 12 too many!

The opposite side of the road, was a neighbours car, smashed to smithereens.

Anyway, managed to keep hold of this guy, whilst on the phone to the services. By that time nigh on the whole street was out in force.

Many abusive words said by car owner to the drunk/high as a kite bloke.. understandably really... I'd be pretty peeved if some eejit drove into my car, even though mines an old knacker!

Turns out, this chap had had a skinfull at the pub just up the road and decided it would be a great idea to drive home. Not only did he total some blokes car, but the car he was driving was a courtesy car..... god only knows what happened to his normal car!...

Thankfully though, nobody was hurt, and the police and ambulance turned up incredibly quickly.

Here are a couple of pics:

This is the drunk drivers car


neighbour's parked car:


Crazy thing is, When I got home from work during the day I plonked my old knacker car on the drive as there wasn't anywhere to park. When the missus got home I took her car to football training (Relatively new Audi A3). Got back and left it parked on the side of the road to which she was most displeased. I said "nothing ever happens on this street"... oh how I was wrong!

I'm generally not against people having a pint/half and then driving afterwards, provided of course they can handle it. But what on earth would posses somebody to get absolutely, well and truly bungalowed and then get into a car, is really beyond me...
 
Howard said:
I dare say you'll be making sure there's enough room on the drive for both cars now. :)
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Oh yes, sir! :p

It was one of those things where I'd got back... tired, hungry, wet.. just wanted to get in the house so the last thing on your mind is a drink driver smashing your car up! lol. I'll listen to the missus from now on though :p
 
People like that shouldn't deserve to drive and should loose their license.

On another note, I wonder if people's perspectives on how they think they are driving are manifested?

Have you seen Wolf of Wall Street? Particularly the scene where he drives his Lambo back to his house from the hotel/resort after searching and using for a pay phone?

I wonder if this is how they see their driving :D
 
Me and my housemate were on our way home from working at an event in Birmingham last summer, we ended up going through tipton because the M6 was closed and found a car which had managed to go straight over a big roundabout taking out the signage and ended up on the other side with it's wheels looking like they were about to fall off.
We pulled up and jumped out to check they were alright and push the car off the road only when we got there the guy was totally fine but so far gone he could just about get some words out in no real order until we told him we were phoning the police at which point he went full on mental zombie so we took the keys out of the ignition and pinned the doors shut, apparently according to the police it was quite a funny site rolling up to 2 guys in high viz sat against the car doors while the guy wound the windows down and was shouting and trying to grab at us.
Complete numpties but at least no one was hurt.
 
JOSH86 said:
Your missus will be dinning out on the "told you so" for a long time to come.
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Oh tell me about it... we have a football drinking spree tonight... first round is already on me, and so is food afterwards...

tom_e said:
Me and my housemate were on our way home from working at an event in Birmingham last summer, we ended up going through tipton because the M6 was closed and found a car which had managed to go straight over a big roundabout taking out the signage and ended up on the other side with it's wheels looking like they were about to fall off.
We pulled up and jumped out to check they were alright and push the car off the road only when we got there the guy was totally fine but so far gone he could just about get some words out in no real order until we told him we were phoning the police at which point he went full on mental zombie so we took the keys out of the ignition and pinned the doors shut, apparently according to the police it was quite a funny site rolling up to 2 guys in high viz sat against the car doors while the guy wound the windows down and was shouting and trying to grab at us.
Complete numpties but at least no one was hurt.
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My football team is based in Tipton, and that sounds about right :p haha

There is a roundabout which links the back end of Netherton to Dudley, I've seen something very similar happen there!... quite a dodgy roundabout to be fair but this guy was a bit piddled as well.

ins0mn1ac said:
Yeah he's clearly a Michael Macintyre fan :D
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I've seen that sketch once, but it did have me in absolute stitches... as its so true :p
 
Will be interesting for the insurance. Given that he was drunk, even though it was a higher car, the insurance won't pay out for either of them I wouldn't have thought...
 
Django x2 said:
Will be interesting for the insurance. Given that he was drunk, even though it was a higher car, the insurance won't pay out for either of them I wouldn't have thought...
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ay I think he's screwed. pretty sure quite a few policies now say they won't pay out/insurance is void if driving under the influence of alcohol (think I remember on the radio one company won't pay out if you are wearing flip flops xD ).

at least no one was hurt :)

and bungalowed! xD love it! :D
 
Indie said:
Crazy thing is, When I got home from work during the day I plonked my old knacker car on the drive as there wasn't anywhere to park. When the missus got home I took her car to football training (Relatively new Audi A3). Got back and left it parked on the side of the road to which she was most displeased. I said "nothing ever happens on this street"... oh how I was wrong!
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If only you had some sort of garage you could put the cars in ;) :p

Thats some impressive trashing of the car though, what a numpty.

I was on holiday the other week and the villa manager guy was telling us about the lack of drink drive laws on the island, saying that with a hire car (different number plates so very obvious) you could get away with all sorts and not to bother with a taxi - Despite this i'd never drive under the influence, a beer is more than enough if driving, i care about my passengers and others on the road too much!
 
Sasso said:
ay I think he's screwed. pretty sure quite a few policies now say they won't pay out/insurance is void if driving under the influence of alcohol (think I remember on the radio one company won't pay out if you are wearing flip flops xD ).

at least no one was hurt :)

and bungalowed! xD love it! :D
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certainly screwed I'd say! - drunk, possibly off his manboobies on some sort of substances, speeding, courtesy car! gonna hurt I think!

Siliconslave said:
If only you had some sort of garage you could put the cars in ;) :p

Thats some impressive trashing of the car though, what a numpty.

I was on holiday the other week and the villa manager guy was telling us about the lack of drink drive laws on the island, saying that with a hire car (different number plates so very obvious) you could get away with all sorts and not to bother with a taxi - Despite this i'd never drive under the influence, a beer is more than enough if driving, i care about my passengers and others on the road too much!
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Garage? I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't have one of those..... any more! :p

Yeah, spoke to the guy last night and he said he'd not long had the car, so makes it even worse... other than the standard abusive swearing though, he was generally quite calm.

You're certainly right there, I'd never have more than one. More often than not i'll just go with a cuppa tea or a coke.. something like that! But like another guy said, it would be interesting to see what actually goes through somebody's mind who is that wasted.
 
Django x2 said:
Will be interesting for the insurance. Given that he was drunk, even though it was a higher car, the insurance won't pay out for either of them I wouldn't have thought...
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They will pay for the third parties car (an insurer cannot escape their third party liabilities - it's actually part of legislation in the Road Traffic Act - can't remember the section off the top of my head) but they'll claim it back from the driver.

It's the same scenario if you decided to drive a car without an MOT, undeclared mods etc.
 
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Why are there so many ***** on the road in the West Midlands. Half the drivers round here should be banned from the road if you ask me.

Bet your neighbour wanted to kill the ****
 
Spartacus said:
Why are there so many ***** on the road in the West Midlands. Half the drivers round here should be banned from the road if you ask me.

Bet your neighbour wanted to kill the ****
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God, tell me about it! I thought the driving in bath/Bristol was bad, but after moving to bham it's like 90% of other drivers are actively trying to kill me!
 
Witnessed similar a few years back at 3am. Had to coerce the drunk driver out of this car which had started catching fire. He then set it on fire even more in an attempt to destroy evidence before "running" away. That was an exciting night. A few minutes earlier and I could have been hit myself.
 
Spartacus said:
Why are there so many ***** on the road in the West Midlands. Half the drivers round here should be banned from the road if you ask me.

Bet your neighbour wanted to kill the ****
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Haggisman said:
God, tell me about it! I thought the driving in bath/Bristol was bad, but after moving to bham it's like 90% of other drivers are actively trying to kill me!
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You are completely right, a lot of the drivers around here are insane.

Drove up to Preston and surrounding area last weekend and everybody up there was amazing.. lol Lots of waving, and thanking etc! all very polite!

DB_SamX said:
Witnessed similar a few years back at 3am. Had to coerce the drunk driver out of this car which had started catching fire. He then set it on fire even more in an attempt to destroy evidence before "running" away. That was an exciting night. A few minutes earlier and I could have been hit myself.
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Ouch, that seems like a fairly interesting night! That's why I held onto the guy, saying that, he wasn't in any state to 'run' anywhere!... especially not after my particularly aggressive night playing football, I was quite up for a chase!

He did keep moaning that he needs to get his fags out of the car though..

makes me wonder what else he had in there!

Poor neighbours car was still sat there looking very sorry for itself this morning :(
 
I know quite a lot of people who drive ****ed at night, a couple of drinks is fine but i have seen or heard of incidents where the drivers i know have passed out behind the wheel and crashed due to the excess drink they have on them.

Some people will never learn and keep rolling the dice every time. I have no sympathy for people who do this really.
 
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