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Drinking..then Driving

say one sunny sunday i had 7 pints then needed to drive home

how long would it be before im good to go?

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Get in the car a drive home as fast as you can...on the basis the least time it takes you the least damage you can do ...HTH

I also apply a similar logic when low on fuel, get home quicker before it runs out

 

It's worked every time so far so must be reet

I keep it simple by not having any alcohol if I'm driving or planning to be driving in the next 12 hours.

 

I also think that anyone caught drink driving should get a minimum 5 year driving ban. It may make people think twice before chancing it.

They were racing, according to a paramedic friend of mine who was first on scene.

She said it was the worst she'd seen in 15yrs on the job.

 

Traf the two kids that were both "" KILLED "" were not racing. just pulled onto the east lancs it was the two Audis that were racing

 

The lad was from horwich , Rip fella and your young lady too.

there are loads of different factors, so there can't be any real rule of thumb, as everybody is different. A mates daughter recently lost her licence, she was done for drink driving, she thought she was OK as she had only had 2 halves of Stella.....sadly for her, as she pulled out of the pub car park a car ploughed into the side of her vehicle, a police car was there within a few minutes and she was breathalysed, she was over the limit. When she had the evidential test at the station, she was still just over the limit. She tried the "But you're supposed to be alright with a couple of pints" line, that didn't really help her very much

 

that's another thing many drink drivers seem to forget - all this "I can drive perfectly fine after four pints"

 

which they may well be able to do - but if you're toddling along at 30 and some one else drives into you, or worse still you hit someone who walked into the road without looking, and it's totally their fault - it's not going to really matter if you get breathalised

 

and this seems as good as any place to post this

 

an advert about speeding

 

brutal

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

Kin ell that is a shocker .should show that to the scrotes that do it , more effective than a £30 fine , very powerfull that ad

that's another thing many drink drivers seem to forget - all this "I can drive perfectly fine after four pints"

 

which they may well be able to do - but if you're toddling along at 30 and some one else drives into you, or worse still you hit someone who walked into the road without looking, and it's totally their fault - it's not going to really matter if you get breathalised

 

and this seems as good as any place to post this

 

an advert about speeding

 

brutal

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

I coudln't believe how rife drink driving was in Australia.

 

Most of the people that I worked with would drive to the pub and have 3/4 pints. One day a lad at our work got caught well over the limit and people just laughed it off.

 

At least there is a great deal of shame to being caught over here. I still think it should be zero tollerance like in Sweden. I can't imagine how guilty I would feel if I knocked somebody over after just one pint, even if it wasn't my fault I would spend the rest of my days thinking 'What if?'

Sweden isn't zero tolerance, it's 0.2mg  -  we on the other hand are 0.8mg, so 4 times higher.

 

I do agree that our limit should be reduced, far too many people think they'll be OK with 2 or 3 pints, when in fact they are probably anything but.

so, no drinking on sunday - just to be safe

 

no driving to the match saturday afternoon after a messy friday

 

tis a minefield

 

if i could have a calibrated kit to hand in order to check, they can make the limits owt they want

Traf the two kids that were both "" KILLED "" were not racing. just pulled onto the east lancs it was the two Audis that were racing

 

The lad was from horwich , Rip fella and your young lady too.

 

I know, my friend was there

 

I didn't mean those injured were racing, I meant they were victims of racing.

 

Sorry if I confused you.

when did they bring it in

 

in the building game finish work friday pub drive home

that's another thing many drink drivers seem to forget - all this "I can drive perfectly fine after four pints"

 

which they may well be able to do - but if you're toddling along at 30 and some one else drives into you, or worse still you hit someone who walked into the road without looking, and it's totally their fault - it's not going to really matter if you get breathalised

 

and this seems as good as any place to post this

 

an advert about speeding

 

brutal

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD8BkIgp9Fo

Dear me that brought tears to my eyes

Fookin loads do it.

 

Lads in vans being the biggest culprit. Couple of jars after work and drive home. See em every tea time in this place. Same vans,same time every night.

 

I used to have a couple before the match on Saturday and drive home but don't bother with that anymore. Don't see the point in risking being over for the sake of two pints,plus what's the point in drinking if your not having a few??

 

Its the morning after that worries me the most. I shudder when I think back to my early 20's,getting smashed every night till silly o'clock then driving across Lancashire at 5&6am to work every morning. Some days I could barely remember the drive in.

 

Silly billy.

Don't know if it is all of Spain (presumably yes), but in Menorca it is a €380 fine and a 3 month ban. You can defer your ban by paying double the fine. One of the guys I know paid the double fine, and served his ban the 3 months he spends off the island.

Good ad, I found this one quite powerful too:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLaTupw-hk

 

like someone mentioned above about Aus, drink driving doesn't have the same stigma in NZ

 

office manager, a woman in her sixties, drove home fairly pissed after friday drinks

When I lived abroad in sa drink driving was an olympic sport. You couldn't walk the streets as you would get murdered for being white, there were no taxis for white folks and pubs were that spread about everyone did it and it was part of life

I learnt my lesson one night, leathered, went into an s bend speeding, lost control and rolled the car seven times being thrown out the side window halfway through. Luckily there was not a car in sight. Normal copper turned up and asked if I'd had a beer, told him yes, his reply was that I had best fuck off as the traffic police were on the way.

£never done it since and that was 18 years ago. All over a woman, slag

How many people drove home from yeovil sober ?

Me, I was tucked up in bed for 10pm, had a good 13 hours before setting off

How many people drove home from yeovil sober ?

Wonder how many people drove home from Southampton in the cup back in 1992 sober??

 

Yikes.

How many people drove home from yeovil sober ?

:D

How many people drove home from yeovil sober ?

I believe I offered to drive the travel club coach home.

I believe I offered to drive the travel club coach home.

Ha ha ha

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