Winter madness: drink-drivers

[LotusOmega375D]

Silly season is now upon us. We heard the first random volleys of fireworks at the weekend. That's 3 weeks before bonfire night. No doubt they will continue on-and-off for a month or so.

Meanwhile, we'll have the Hallowe'en festivities to put up with.

Thereafter we can start psyching ourselves up for Christmas. Sadly, that means another inevitable upturn in the number of drunk drivers on our roads. Why do some morons still do that?

I live next to a pub and see people boozing for hours on end time and time agian before getting back in their cars and driving off. They often don't even try and hide the fact and screech off in a cloud of rev-limited tyre smoke. All it would take would be a police car parked just down the road to stop and breathalyse them and they'd be off the road for ages. Just one weekend of that sort of police action would wipe out the bulk of the offenders straightaway. Have any of you ever seen a car stopped after leaving a pub car-park on suspicion of drink-driving? Seems obvious to me.

[LotusOmega375D]

doogz said:

If you seen someone that's clearly drunk, getting in their car and driving off, phone the police. Simple.

They'll be long gone before the police ever got here. The police need to be a bit more pro-active themselves.

[LotusOmega375D]

Shaw Tarse said:

Tell the police it's happening, if possible give them some reg numbers & times.

Also it's not just this time of year it happens, summer when it's nice & warm is just as bad! (all 2 days each year)

I might try that. Problem is now it's dark so early, it's impossible to identify people and vehicles from where I live: I'd actually need to be in the pub as a spy, which wouldn't be very healthy on either my liver or my head if anyone realized they'd been grassed up.

You're also right about the summer of course.