Lowering the drink driving limit

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I knew I'd get slaughtered for admitting it and rightly so.

I don't get into a car "pissed up". 3 or 4 pints over a 4 or 5 hour evening is not pissed up.

I've been pulled over and breathalised 3 times and been under every time

The triple crown. You should be proud

 

[hilts]

To the people justifying driving when pissed - how about you post your real names and addresses on here if there’s nothing wrong with it eh

I've not read every post so which people have said they drive around pissed?

 

[hampshireblue]

Is there really a high accident rate for those between the current limit and the proposed new limit?

I'm not sure, but it makes no sense for there to be a difference between Scotland and England. imagine driving across the border and being legal one second and illegal the next.

 

[bluenova]

I knew I'd get slaughtered for admitting it and rightly so.

I don't get into a car "pissed up". 3 or 4 pints over a 4 or 5 hour evening is not pissed up.

I've been pulled over and breathalised 3 times and been under every time

Out of interest, do you know why you've been pulled over and breathalysed?

 

[bluenova]

I'm not sure, but it makes no sense for there to be a difference between Scotland and England. imagine driving across the border and being legal one second and ilegal the next.

Or the other way round. We could have had Smokey & the Bandit style chases across state lines.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Should be zero in my opinion and I don't mind a good scoop now and again

We all know drink driving is bad and a recipe for disaster and we know people have different tolerances, even our own tolerance varies. Sometimes I'm 8 pints in and barely feel it. Sometimes i can have a couple of pints and feel it.

Easier just to make any drink driving illegal and be done with

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Out of interest, do you know why you've been pulled over and breathalysed?

I've been breathalysed once.

My missus used to work in a pub, and when I worked 2-10 shift I would often pick her up on the way home from work. I would occasionally have a half whilst waiting for her to finish, and then we'd drive into town and get a takeaway on the way home. As I got into town I did my usual route of driving past the takeaway then doing a U-turn and parking in a side street. One night, I completely missed the newly minted no U-turn sign and a copper spotted me (in my heavily modified Mini) and decided to pull me over.

Explained why he'd stopped me, smelled alcohol and breathalised me. Reading came back well under the limit, and he then proceeded to start writing up the paperwork for the traffic offence when he got a call to another job, so he let me off.

Since that day I won't have a drink and drive and that was over 30 years ago.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

 

[SCEtoAUX]

Lowering the blood/alcohol limit in Scotland had no effect on road fatalities or injuries. That's cold hard evidence, measured over a number of years.

 

[Lavinda Past]

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And...?

 

[ballbag]

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Interesting. That paints a picture. Its almost as if most drivers aren't impaired by alcohol when they drive.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Interesting. That paints a picture. Its almost as if most drivers aren't impaired by alcohol when they drive.

Nonsense.
Almost every single one of those will be affected by alcohol.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Interesting. That paints a picture. Its almost as if most drivers aren't impaired by alcohol when they drive.

Proof that the vast majority of motorists will not be affected by a reduction in alcohol limits.

Just those selfish bastards who seem to think that alcohol limits are an personal attack on their 'right' to drink and drive.

Don't drink and drive. It's simple.

 

[ballbag]

Nonsense.
Every single one of those will be affected by alcohol.

Tongue in cheek. To me it suggests that most road users aren't stupid enough to drink and drive.

 

[M Gaudino]

To be fair, I think there is something in limiting young drivers or increaseling the driving age. The most deaths are caused by under 25's. How many lives would be saved if you couldn't start driving till 25? But the government wouldn't go near that with a barge pole.

they are looking at banning under 21s from driving with other under 21s in the car for the first 6 months

 

[oldhamblue]

Out of interest, do you know why you've been pulled over and breathalysed?

All 3 occasions the police were sat waiting. Once the blue lights came on behind me as soon as I put the key in the car. The other 2 they let me drive off the car park then pulled me over

 

[crooky]

they are looking at banning under 21s from driving with other under 21s in the car for the first 6 months

More nonsense FFS.

Why not put a curfew on drivers under 21 so they can't drive after 11pm?

Or anyone under 21 has to have a black box that restricts your car to 70mph and only allows half throttle application etc...?

That'd 'help' as well.

 

[.db.]

Interesting. That paints a picture. Its almost as if most drivers aren't impaired by alcohol when they drive.

It doesn’t mean that 93.9% of those driving with alcohol in them weren’t affected by it when driving. It means that 6.1% of all car collisions are due to people being under the influence.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Mad that someone had admitted to having 5 pints and gets behind the wheel of a car once a week and justifies it by saying he’s under the limit when breathalysed.

Living in Middleton there is no need for me to have to drive to the pubs as they are all 10 mins walk away. If we go further afield we uber.

It should be zero, then there is no excuse and people like our drink-driving friend have no scope to do it.