Drink driving at Christmas

14 Dec 2009

At this time of year, many people are having a couple of christmas drinks with their workmates, but this is a reminder for anyone who thinks they are fine to drive home afterwards.
It's quite hard-hitting and it's likely to be preaching to the converted, but well worth watching.

Merry Christmas, but let's make sure it's a safe one.
Mal
wink

14 Dec 2009

Thanks Mal, its a good reminder to those who 'it won't happen to'.

14 Dec 2009

Quote by goldsmith
Thanks Mal, its a good reminder to those who 'it won't happen to'.

Too right :thumbup:

14 Dec 2009

wow... that is graphic....
and hopefully effective.
thanks Mal.

14 Dec 2009

They should play that on tv on all channels instead of the "pretend" ones they do and perhaps drink driving and associated deaths would decrease.

14 Dec 2009

please never ever drink and drive
please never ever take drugs and drive
also please always take care when you drive
we have lost someone to an rta this year and its one of the most awful things that can happen

14 Dec 2009

if i was in charge all drink drivers would be placed against the wall and shot!
just the slightest smell of alcohol and your guilty in my book.
no courts,and only one penalty.
the death penalty!!!

14 Dec 2009

Quote by AlanStone
They should play that on tv on all channels instead of the "pretend" ones they do and perhaps drink driving and associated deaths would decrease.

I reckon a good deterrent would be to take any and all drivers stopped with a positive result on a breatheliser (sp?) should be held until they are stone cold sober and shown things like this. I don't think many kill someone the first time they go out driving with drink in them.
You can desensitise people with too much of it, but a hard hit after a bad night in a cell (are they hard and unheated? They should be) might make an impact.

14 Dec 2009

A very hard hitting film but will it reach the right people? Travelling on the M4 today all of the matrix signs had 'Don't drink and drive' lit up. Do they loose their impact on a long motorway trip? Films like this should be shown on all TV and a radio version broadcast on main radio stations simultaneously. We have to suffer the political broadcasts simultaneously so surely these adverts would do more good. How do you reach the "it'll never happen to me group"? The threat of a prison term might help combined with some licence restriction to commence on release.
Have a happy and safe driving Christmas
Smooth2

14 Dec 2009

Should show it in pubs and clubs perhaps?
Thanks for posting Mal - thought provoking stuff.

14 Dec 2009

I think the type of person who would drink and drive will do so dispite what ever film you show them

14 Dec 2009

Quote by Mal
At this time of year, many people are having a couple of christmas drinks with their workmates, but this is a reminder for anyone who thinks they are fine to drive home afterwards.
It's quite hard-hitting and it's likely to be preaching to the converted, but well worth watching.

Merry Christmas, but let's make sure it's a safe one.
Mal

Shouldn't just be for Christmas... there is no excuse at any time. :thumbup:

14 Dec 2009

Funny how attitudes change over the years and how cool it is now to be on the anti drink driving bandwagon and how society has now deemed it to be socially unacceptable.
Shame that the same efforts can't be used to change the habits of drinking in general and the damage alcohol has on people in normal day to day life and not just as a result of drink driving.
I have to say though - just to be devils advocate that I do miss the times when you could slip the nice policemen a couple of Â£20 notes and just drive on. Funnily enough i have just spent 6 months in a Central American country and found that bribing policemen meant you could speed, drink and drive, and generally just rely on your car 24/7 whatever state you were in. Wrong? Of course it was wrong, but I was not complaining. There is uproar in Mexico at the moment because of a planned introduction of speed camera's which will seriously affect the "income" of your every day traffic cop.

15 Dec 2009

I am sure "Too Hot" your idea of slipping a copper a few quid and driving on would change if someone close to you was killed by a drink driver.

15 Dec 2009

I have known people to brag about the number of times they have been banned for drink driving and yet continue to do so as soon as they get their licence back.
No numer of adverts will change these people.
It's worrying to think that it would take a manslaughter charge to change some people's "it wont happen to me" attidute, but Im afraid it's true!!

15 Dec 2009

i had the effects of drink driving brought home to me at the age of 8 when my friends sister was killed by a drink driver who had been lunch time drinking on the friday before christmas, my friends sister was walking with 3 friends single file along the road when the driver skittled them killing my friends sister and injuring the others this horific event stuck with me and i have always been fiercely anti drink driving although i do know before too hot jumps in that horrific accidents like this do happen without drink playing a part as i found out when my son was knocked off his bike, i think as this event happened in my formative years it has always left me with this awfull fear that something similar would happen to my children so when it did, although luckily not on the same scale, it was my worst nightmare come true for very very luckily s short while. i recieved a phone call telling me my son had been knocked of his bike and the guy said "i think he is ok but he isn't moving" i felt so scared the thoughts running through my head i would rather forget, i found a neighbour to take me there and as we arrived at the scene there was a huge que of traffic about 1/4 mile long and in the distance i could see 3 sets of flashing lights i was about to jump out and run the rest of the way when my neighbour mounted the verge and drove the rest of the way, i have never been so scared in my life i had all sorts of scenarios running through my head, as we got there he had already been put into the ambulance and as i got out of the car my sons friend grabbed me and told me its ok calm down he is fine but still all sorts of things were running through my head as i climbed into the ambulance and saw him on a body board all strapped in i think i almost fainted, i was told by the paramedics he was fine and it was all precautionary the poor ambulance crew had more on thier hands calming me down that they did have with his injuries
i was the luckiest mum in the world all the injuries he had were a bloody nose and a huge craze up his hip and he was out of hospital in under an hour with his mum clinging onto him for dear life poor kid lol

the woman that knocked him off his bike had just simply not seen him despite his high vis vest and lights on his bike (in broad daylight none the less like i said road accidents are my biggest fear) she had looked straight passed him up the road and then pulled out, he reacted fast and steered away which they said reduced the impact and his injuries and incredibly luckily nothing was coming the other way, but the oddest thing about this accident was the fact that the woman driving the car came round to visit our son later that day and was telling us how it had brought back some horrendous memories of the time she had been knocked down as a child, it turned out she was one of the surviving children from the accident that had given me all my fears of my own children being knocked down, what an odd ole world we live in.
my cchildren are now old enough that they are learning to become drivers themselves and that is giving me a whole new set of fears as yet they haven't had their tests but are being driven around by friends which worries me immensely as i might of drummed into mine that drinking/drugs and driving are a no go zone i fear they might get in a car with someone that is under the influence maybe even unknowingly but hopefully not willingly
i will be showing both our boys this clip when they get home in the hope it will drive the dangers home to them and if it affects the even half of how it did me i can then rest easy they won't take risks at all
so ty mal :thumbup:

15 Dec 2009

Quote by AlanStone
I am sure "Too Hot" your idea of slipping a copper a few quid and driving on would change if someone close to you was killed by a drink driver.

Of course it would.
My main point here is that society has done a good job making drink driving socially unacceptable - and that is a good thing. However, the number of people killed and injured as a result of drink driving is probably insignificant compared to the ills brought on by alcohol in every day life and the number of alcohol fuelled batterings, beatings and slayings every week-end. Yet is it is still OK to go get blathered Friday & Saturday night and indeed for teenagers - it seems almost something to aspire to.
In respect of bribes, I am too young to remember the days when you could bribe UK traffic police but I have done plenty of it abroad - in Greece and Spain in the 1980's and more recently in Mexico. If you were too drunk to drive they would just take your keys off you - especially if they knew you, but normally it was just a case of slipping them a few quid and getting on your way again.

15 Dec 2009

What we have here is a fitness to drive issue.
Like all men, I think I am a superb driver.
I think that I can drive better drunk than a lot of people do when they're stone cold sober.
Indeed I wonder how some people ever managed to pass their test.
But be that as it may, we have to have a law, as most people drive worse after a couple of glasses of wine/pints of beer, and the ones who drive crap in the first place, become downright lethal.
I think the limit is about right, though the penalty for a very minor transgression, even if a first offence, is quite draconian. I haven't formally researched it, but my recollection is that in practically all of the really serious accidents where alcohol is a factor, the culprit was way over the limit and clearly unfit to drive.
(I was tested a few weeks ago - they told me I wasn't doing anything wrong, but I knew that because they'd been tailing me for 2 miles, just that I had "wandered" slightly in my lane - not enough to be a problem, just enough for them to notice - yeah right!! I passed, as I knew I would, and then the cheeky buggers said they thought their breathalyser must be faulty, because I admitted I'd had 2 pints of 4% lager over a period of 4 hours, in shandies. They radioed for another unit for a second test, but they were all busy, so reluctantly let me go)

15 Dec 2009

I value my life and the everybody else's too much, therefore dont agree with drink driving........plus my licence allows me to get too & from work, friends and other places..........think before you drink.

15 Dec 2009

This should be shown on the telly EVERY night.

16 Dec 2009

IMHO anyone who drinks and then gets behind the wheel is totally selfish with no thought for others.
If they're caught they should be sobered up and then chained to the centre if a racetrack full of drunk drivers! ;-)
Note the wink ;-)