Drink drive limit
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Who are you to tell me what to do?
As long as you're within the confines of the law, what is the problem?
edit: For the record I don't drink and drive at all.
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Can anyone remember the channel 4 (?) show that looked at and tested this?
I'm sure I remember some fat lump drank a few glasses of wine and was legally OK, but the smaller woman was over the limit after 2. I can't find it online anywhere but it was interesting
I'm sure I remember some fat lump drank a few glasses of wine and was legally OK, but the smaller woman was over the limit after 2. I can't find it online anywhere but it was interesting
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That's the point of the thread - The law may reckon you're safe but that only offers a general guideline, while your individual characteristics may still mean that you're unsafe.
Who am I to tell you what to do?
I'm the father of the kid you're going to kill, I'm the wife who's husband won't be coming home ever again, I'm the child you're going to orphan, I'm the police officer who's got to go tell a family that you just wrecked their lives, I'm the fireman who has to cut what's left of your screaming body out of your car, I'm the paramedic who has to pick up and bag bits of person off the road... and I'm the jury member who gets to decide your fate in court.
Doesn't matter whether you've been drinking, getting high or stoned, are using your phone, are emotionally distracted or whatever - When you take to the road, you're responsible for the lives of yourself, your passengers and everyone around you. Driving is one of the most potentially dangerous things the average person can do. Why would you do anything that might make it even more dangerous?
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/01/14/Factfile_deaths_v2_2011.pdf
There are a lot of other things we could be worrying about
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Like I said, the limit should be 0.01 with the extension that it is illegal to drive after, during or with immediate intent to consume an alcoholic drink of your own or a meaningful amount of someone else's. With sizeable fines, £500+.
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That's a good point, should the motorway have a different drink drive limit?
What's different about a motorway, other than it having a very low accident rate?
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You are driving for generally longer and generally faster, so not a 30mph five minute trip home.
That's true you generally drive faster on motorways, but what evidence suggests that it requires a change in the drink drive limit for motorways?
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More accidents happen when you're within 5 miles of your home, on roads you think you know well, which is where complacency creeps in.
But I can't die from, or kill someone else with, any of those just from a few moments of inattentiveness or behaving like a ****. People are generally aware of this and so tend to be fairly careful on the road... but there are always accidents and stupidity.
Alcohol occurs naturally in the blood at 0.01-0.03 mg/dL, so everyone would be over your limit all the time.
Ive always set a limit of a maximum of 1.5 pints of normal beer or 2 bottles of small beer if I am driving, though more often than not I drink zero beer if driving. I am confident at my age and size that has very little impact on my ability to drive, where as 3-4 points would without question.
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If I'm just stopping in at the pub for 20 minutes then I won't drink, otherwise I might have a pint but certainly wouldn't have 2 and still drive unless it was going to be 3+ hours later.
I'll have a pint, used to have two but then a mate got pulled and taken to the station. He says he only had two and I have reason to believe him, by the time he was at the station he didn't fail. But obviously two can be enough to cause a load of hassle and aggravation, even if two pints of ****water doesn't even do anything!
Now as I usually want more than one drink and two pints is perhaps too much I'll have bottles instead. I'll make two bottles last as long as everyone else's two pints and that way there's zero risk. Not sure what it'd be like under the Scottish rules though.
Now as I usually want more than one drink and two pints is perhaps too much I'll have bottles instead. I'll make two bottles last as long as everyone else's two pints and that way there's zero risk. Not sure what it'd be like under the Scottish rules though.