Drink Driving

[dandan]

[nigelbread]

A friend of mine got 12months ban [no not me!] he is a self employed carpenter and after the initial shock stopped feeling sorry for him self, decided to expand his business by increasing the work load and employing an assistant / driver.
Now he has a thriving busness.
So the best for the future.

[l.c]

I know that blowing 43 may not seem much but have seen similar many many times.

I recently pulled over a guy who was weaving about a bit, not excessively but enough for him to be pulled. I walked to his window when he stopped and the smell of alcohol almost knocked me clean out. Got him in the back of my car and he blew 37 on the roadside test. It's still a fail so he was arrested and taken back to the station.

Due to it being a friday night we had to wait about half an hour for him to be booked into custody and a further hour for a CAMIC trained officer to come and perform the station procedure. I was beginning to think that due to the timescale he would be under the limit now and walk free.

Well, when someone arrived to do the procedure I went to get the bloke out of his cell. He was drunk as a skunk. Way worse than when I had stopped him. It transpired that he had left the pub seconds before I saw him driving having just necked a load of beer very quickly. He told me he hadn't had a drink at all so I breathalysed him immediately not waiting for the 20 minutes I would have, had he told me that he had been drinking. The reading I got was just mouth alcohol. His actual breath alcohol by the time the procedure was done was 124 microgrammes per 100 mills or breath. Thats 3.5 times over the limit.

The moral is, although you can blow a low reading at the roadside, it is quite common for your body to still be absorbing the alcohol and so you can be going up. A number of people who have even blown between 40 and 50 at the station and then opted to go for blood have been shafted because their blood samples come back even higher.

I have also had to scrape up the aftermath of drink drive incidents on a fairly regular basis. As such I just don't agree with it at all. I have absolutely zero sympathy. In fact I am proud to say that it gives me a sense of satisfaction when I charge someone with that offence.

[Drift]

[bobbinsjob]

Did it once, stacked the car, luckily no-one hurt apart from me, lesson learned, never again

[Alpine_Skier_UK]

Well, my mate was in court today.

Got a text a short time ago.

12 month ban
6 points
£470 fine
And must attend training course near the end of his ban

A timely reminder to those who may be thinking of risking it to drive after a drink!!!

[madchef]

Not been in for a while.Been a little busy.
During preparations for the GWR event this is one of the sites I contacted due to the event being in memory of TURBO.
There sister site is linked to this one so if you feel you need more advice or info on why drink driving is wrong have a look.

They know about FOG and as it is that time of year again where people get foolish sign up to support them.
http://www.cadd.org.uk/

Regards

[Roo]