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Getting fed up with drunk drivers!

Tosh said:
Ashamed to admit this but my dad was banned three times for drink driving!
Three times !!
All it did was put more pressure on me, my mum and my sister as we then had to step up (family business) and do more… whilst dad just took himself off to the pub!!

Needless to say I don’t drink and cannot abide being around pissheads!!
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Mate i hear what you are saying --my mates dad done the same they had a great electrical appliance sale and repair shop it went bankrupt in the end -- it turned out he was a alcoholic we all new he like a drink and was a great guy --but i don't think he realised he had become a alcoholic --it is a illness at times for some don't ask me what triggers it but something dose cause it
 
Tosh said:
Ashamed to admit this but my dad was banned three times for drink driving!
Three times !!
All it did was put more pressure on me, my mum and my sister as we then had to step up (family business) and do more… whilst dad just took himself off to the pub!!

Needless to say I don’t drink and cannot abide being around pissheads!!
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That's not your your fault though mate. I remember when I was a kid in the 80s - getting in the back of Dad's van and sitting on the toolbox while he drove home from the pub. Different time I suppose 🤷
 
My dad had a mate who drove minibuses for the council, ferrying old ladies to bingo etc. He would turn up at my old man's RAFA club and sink 8 or 10 pints, enough to be so drunk he was embarrassing to be around, then drive home. Everyone told him he would get done one day and lose his licence then his job soon after, but somehow he never did. No justice sometimes...
 
I had an alcoholic Uncle who ended up in debt because of his drinking. He owed £5000 on his mortgage and they were about to repossess his home. At this point he got so low he decided to kill himself by driving over the cliffs at Flamborough. He got there and was parked on the cliff edge when a wonderful group of people got together and had a whip round and presented him with the £5000 he needed. I recall he couldnt thank them enough and he said that he had never driven a better set of bus passengers ever before.
 
I had an alcoholic Uncle who ended up in debt because of his drinking. He owed £5000 on his mortgage and they were about to repossess his home. At this point he got so low he decided to kill himself by driving over the cliffs at Flamborough. He got there and was parked on the cliff edge when a wonderful group of people got together and had a whip round and presented him with the £5000 he needed. I recall he couldnt thank them enough and he said that he had never driven a better set of bus passengers ever before.
 
bi6als said:
I had an alcoholic Uncle who ended up in debt because of his drinking. He owed £5000 on his mortgage and they were about to repossess his home. At this point he got so low he decided to kill himself by driving over the cliffs at Flamborough. He got there and was parked on the cliff edge when a wonderful group of people got together and had a whip round and presented him with the £5000 he needed. I recall he couldnt thank them enough and he said that he had never driven a better set of bus passengers ever before.
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Silly beggar!!!
 
Byronic said:
Stiffer penalties would be a start

Minimum of a year ban for each muliple of the alcohol limit which they have exceeded.
Double this if they have any illegal drugs in their system.

Regardless of what they do for a living etc.
If having a Driving Licence is so important that you absolutely need it then it is your responsibility be careful not to lose it.

Jail time for Driving While Disqualified .
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Double the jail sentence for every subsequent offence...
 
My neighbours L200 was hit by a drink driver .


The drink driver was stopped from driving by people in the social club he took his keys but he had a spare set and drove home .e

He hit my neighbours L200 and drove on . My neighbour posted on facebook looking for the driver and someone told him his neighbour had driven home in a damaged vehicle .

My neighbour confronted him and he admitted it and paid out to have it fixed but asked not to be reported to the police and my neighbour agreed .

The L200 was written off so i'm not sure what the drink driver paid but I know he was not reported to the Police other than it had been hit .

That drink driver got off with the drink driving incident .

Years later my neighbour who lived in the above neighbours house by this time had his car hit and to this day the driver has not been found . His car was written off also .

Could it have been the same driver who hit both ? It's possible .


I don't agree with people letting these people off if they pay to have the damage fixed, get them reported , How many other times have they be let off . Is the next incident going to end up a fatality when it may have been prevented if they had been reported ? Possibly .

The amount of hit and run incidents here are rising and many are offering these people a get out of jail free card .

I see it all the time in our local Facebook page , People bumping cars in car parks and driving off and the people who were hit asking who ever that did it to own up and they won't report it or involve the insurance as a hit and run . How many other times have they been let off ? How many more times are they going to hit and run other drivers ? Get them reported as the next one may lead to a fatality .
 
Bighit said:
My neighbours L200 was hit by a drink driver .


The drink driver was stopped from driving by people in the social club he took his keys but he had a spare set and drove home .e

He hit my neighbours L200 and drove on . My neighbour posted on facebook looking for the driver and someone told him his neighbour had driven home in a damaged vehicle .

My neighbour confronted him and he admitted it and paid out to have it fixed but asked not to be reported to the police and my neighbour agreed .

The L200 was written off so i'm not sure what the drink driver paid but I know he was not reported to the Police other than it had been hit .

That drink driver got off with the drink driving incident .

Years later my neighbour who lived in the above neighbours house by this time had his car hit and to this day the driver has not been found . His car was written off also .

Could it have been the same driver who hit both ? It's possible .


I don't agree with people letting these people off if they pay to have the damage fixed, get them reported , How many other times have they be let off . Is the next incident going to end up a fatality when it may have been prevented if they had been reported ? Possibly .

The amount of hit and run incidents here are rising and many are offering these people a get out of jail free card .

I see it all the time in our local Facebook page , People bumping cars in car parks and driving off and the people who were hit asking who ever that did it to own up and they won't report it or involve the insurance as a hit and run . How many other times have they been let off ? How many more times are they going to hit and run other drivers ? Get them reported as the next one may lead to a fatality .
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It is all well and good being a good neighbour BUT what if someone had been hurt of killed--drink drivers in my book need to be removed from the roads --there is enough accidents to start with --thankfully no one was hurt in the incident that happened --it makes you think to yourself how many times dose things that this happen
 
zakdingel said:
It is all well and good being a good neighbour BUT what if someone had been hurt of killed--drink drivers in my book need to be removed from the roads --there is enough accidents to start with --thankfully no one was hurt in the incident that happened --it makes you think to yourself how many times dose things that this happen
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If it was my wifes car that was hit the night the L200 was I would have been reporting the driver . If my wife had not been out babysitting that night our car would have been hit first. My wife could have been coming home at the same time also .

The rear axle of the L200 was shunted toward 's the front of it and some of the the leaf springs were on the ground ,it was not a gentle bump and it then hit the neighbours wife's car but it was not too badly damaged , Just a few scuffs on the door and the wing mirror broken off.

We have had a few cars hit here since I moved here in 2004 and only one bump by our neighbour who came and told us she had bumped it . It was a tiny scuff on the bumper and I said it was fine as the car was 12 years old and had a number of scuffs on the bumper already so one more was not going to matter.
 
Driver is a pretty big SUV outside Salisbury, all over the road before lurching to a stop at the roadside.
Thought they may be suffering a medical event so pulled in behind and got out.
Nope, hammered with an open can in the drinks holder.
Late wife rang police, driver got the arse and decided he was going to drive away.

Time passed

Police arrived and didn’t bother asking how his windscreen got smashed or his front tyres ended up flat.
Just nicked him. Thanked us and took him away.
Must have been the windscreen and tyre fairy that did it 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Surely anything you do in life which requires licensing should be treated as a priviledge to do.
You need to keep certain standards to maintain a licence and we as shooters know this all too well, so FAC holders and AWC holders too in Scotland respect this priviledge and stay right side of the law.
By setting this standard then surely a Driving Licence is also a priviledge and not a right therefore any infringement of actions needed to hold a driving licence should result in it being revoked.
 
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