Would you report drink driving?

Yes for sure as your saving lives! Both theirs & the poor innocents about to get wiped out. :(

Last year I witnessed a horrendous near miss. Mercedes AMG with a hero driver :rolleyes: undertook me & several other cars on the hard shoulder :eek: doing well in excess of 100mph :mad: ONLY reason he did not wipe out several car loads of innocent families ahead was because he managed to control the swerving his extreme speed induced as he fought the steering to avoid launching off the hilly bank at the side of the road which would have thrown him into the crowded motorway traffic & caused the most horrendous accident. It all happened so fast as well in the blink of an eye he speed off up the hard shoulder once has had regained some control.

Not the first time I have seen seriously dangerous driving either....
 
Yes, and I've also threatened to physically stop someone getting into a car and drive when they could barely walk. Luckily he finally saw sense before it got to me pushing him over with a feather to incapacitate him!
 
A couple down at the beach today, arguing and swearing.
Neither could walk in a straight line.
If they had driven off, I would have reported them, but I left first.
Maybe they slept it off in their van.
 
Yes, I've done it once. I used to start work early and was normally on the road shortly after 05:00. As I left the village, I caught up with a car that was driving very erratically, speeding up, slowing down, gradually drifting towards the centre of the road or the verge and then swerving back.

I called 999, explained what I was seeing, gave them the registration number and my location. They said that it sounded like he was drunk so I kept a safe distance and as he happened to be going one of the two ways I could go to work, I followed him and kept them updated. They told me they were trying to get units to intercept. However, when he turned off my route, I told them exactly which direction he went and they thanked me, said they thought they knew where he was going and would be waiting at his destination.

I'd do the same again.
 
robj20 said:
You do. You're only to use a mobile in your hands in an emergency like if someone was threatening you and following you.
The key wording is it being unsafe to stop.
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Unsafe or impractical. That doesn't mean you're being threatened yourself, you could be on a motorway. If waiting for a safe place to stop is going to significantly delay the call then you can do it while driving and you won't be prosecuted.
 
Yes & have done in the past.

Following a guy, steering was erratic, braking for no reason etc. Called 999, gave them all the details and within a few mins there was a marked unit pulling him over.

Police contacted me a few days later, he was more than 3 times the limit
 
Yes, I have before. Last time I did it there was a traffic officer not too far away at another pub waiting for someone to leave after reports and we drove straight past where she was waiting, pulled her over and a few days later got a update from the police, she'd blown 105.
 
opethian said:
Would be great if you have dashcam footage just to speed up the process.

Check these people's reactions when the law was just about to be implemented:


What about the drunk pedestrians? Hahaha
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Thats really interesting to watch, just shows that people haven't really changed much in terms of not liking/wanting change.

It's pretty well accepted by everyone now that drunk driving being dangerous is a fact and not an opinion.
 
I've rung 101 once before. They said they'd see if someone was nearby. I wouldn't ring 999 though.
 
I was following a car home last week after work (rush hour) that was being driven by somebody who is either untrained and cannot legally drive or just plain drunk.

It was on the A1, dual carriage way. They kept veering off to the inside lane and back again, frequently straddling both lanes too. At a slip road, a car was just about to join, nothing out of the ordinary or warranted any action by the driver as we were in the outside lane but for some reason they slammed on their brakes, wobbled a bit before carrying on.

Needless to say, I held back until I could get pass safely. But even when I thought it was safe, they veered back into the right-hand lane as I was passing them (on bike). Completely oblivious.

I tried to remember their reg but forgot by the time I got home.
 
muon said:
I've rung 101 once before. They said they'd see if someone was nearby. I wouldn't ring 999 though.
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if they're driving or about to drive then you should definitely call 999. If you wish to report someone after the incident has taken place you can call 101 to talk to the police. 101 is non emergency and drink driving, although a specific charge can be classed as dangerous so 999 becomes the number to use
 
AlphariusOmegan said:
if they're driving or about to drive then you should definitely call 999. If you wish to report someone after the incident has taken place you can call 101 to talk to the police. 101 is non emergency and drink driving, although a specific charge can be classed as dangerous so 999 becomes the number to use
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I dont think there is an immediate and likely danger to life. Fortunately the vast majority of drunk people get to their location without incident. If 101 wanted to turn it into an emergency they could have. 101 is the non-emergency line, not just for reporting crime afterwards.

"Does it feel like the situation could get heated or violent very soon? Is someone in immediate danger? If so, please call 999 now."
 
Bare in mind that a significant percentage of people especially at a younger age will be well over the limit the morning after the night out. They will be driving to work hung over to heck and very likely still well over
 
muon said:
I dont think there is an immediate and likely danger to life. Fortunately the vast majority of drunk people get to their location without incident. If 101 wanted to turn it into an emergency they could have. 101 is the non-emergency line, not just for reporting crime afterwards.

"Does it feel like the situation could get heated or violent very soon? Is someone in immediate danger? If so, please call 999 now."
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Police have told me in relation to a number of cases to call 999 if there is a crime in progress. I did query it as I thought it was a bit heavy handed for low level crime but that’s what they said.

101 (at least in Hampshire) is terrible. The call handling system is designed to get you to hang up, and if you persist it will hang up for you unless you press ‘0’ within a two second window of opportunity. If you do make the cut you are faced with wait times often in excess of 30 minutes.
 
No, because if I did I’d be on my phone all night :cry:

I have however paid for people’s taxis when they’re so drunk they can barely stand up, responsible citizen that I am.
 
Scuzi said:
Police have told me in relation to a number of cases to call 999 if there is a crime in progress. I did query it as I thought it was a bit heavy handed for low level crime but that’s what they said.

101 (at least in Hampshire) is terrible. The call handling system is designed to get you to hang up, and if you persist it will hang up for you unless you press ‘0’ within a two second window of opportunity. If you do make the cut you are faced with wait times often in excess of 30 minutes.
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Had a few instances of low level crime where I've called 101 after the fact so to speak and they've complained that I should have called 999. These days 101 seems to put you into a queue of like 17 people as well.

Was an incident I reported on 101 a few years back where the cynical side of me thought it wasn't worth calling 999 because the likely response would have been along the lines of "we'll send someone by in the morning" only to have the road fill up with half a dozen plus emergency vehicles 2 minutes after I got off the phone!
 
muon said:
I dont think there is an immediate and likely danger to life. Fortunately the vast majority of drunk people get to their location without incident. If 101 wanted to turn it into an emergency they could have. 101 is the non-emergency line, not just for reporting crime afterwards.

"Does it feel like the situation could get heated or violent very soon? Is someone in immediate danger? If so, please call 999 now."
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Seriously, are you really saying that you don't think anyone is in immediate danger by some **** getting behind the wheel of vehicle when drunk? Please tell me that's not what you're saying.
 
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