Drink Driving

I don’t care if my next statement offends or upsets you but I have a personal hatred of drink drivers and believe there is no excuse for it what so ever. I remember one day when I was walking to school and watched this car hit a barrier. The driver got out of the car took a drink out of a bottle of cider, looked at his car before driving off. Later on I attended a road accident where a young driver had been drinking and lost control of his mum’s brand new car. He hit a wall and bounced off the wall before hitting other cars. Again he was too drunk to work out what he was doing. I have personally known one man arrested for drink driving whilst waiting for a court appearance for another drink driving incident. I have also been on the receiving end from people under the influence of alcohol.

In my employment I regularly deal with people who have drink driving conviction and the amount of excuses and complaints about the police, convictions and insurance I hear are silly. One thing that gets me is the amount of times I hear “it wasn’t my fault” err yes it is your fault and you are going to get no sympathy from me. You choose to drink, you choose to drive and you deserve everything you get. I firmly believe that if you kill someone whilst driving the minimum charge should be manslaughter.

There are calls to lower the legal limit and I fully support this and would also like to see the penalties drastically increased and include things like cars being crushed.