Drink Driving the day after
Discussion
Remember folks, you can still be pissed when you get up the following morning:
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Mother was three times over limit after party
By Tom Peterkin
(Filed: 09/07/2002)
A BBC employee who drove a car containing her two children while more than three times over the legal limit for alcohol was fined £600 and banned from driving for three years yesterday.
Katrina Collier, 43, was seen by police at 9.30am driving erratically with her children aged four and seven. Collier, a production assistant on BBC Scotland's Saturday Show, had been reported to police by her husband, Martin, a broadcast journalist in the news department.
Stirling sheriff court heard that the previous night Collier had been drinking at a party at the end of a project. The next morning, after a row, her husband left her house in Ashfield, Perthshire, and then alerted the police.
Paul Reid, Collier's solicitor, said she had not intended to drive that morning but, following the row, felt she had to leave the house. She was now involved in an acrimonious divorce.
I remember almost piling into the back of a taxi who had no brake lights when I was a student (about 14 years ago - gulp!) whilst seriously hung over.
These days, older and wiser, I probably wouldn't have driven or else drunk less the night before knowing that I had to drive the next day.
These days, older and wiser, I probably wouldn't have driven or else drunk less the night before knowing that I had to drive the next day.
Many years ago, when I was a medical rep, it was quite common for people to be picked up by police on the last day of conferences and sales meetings...after the gala dinner- often drinking til 3 or 4 am and people rushing to get home. I always had a suspiscion that the police were there deliberately. In the end it became company policy to have more work to do on the last morning through lunchtime so that people had a greater chance of sobering up....
I know everyone has a dim view of drink driving but I think that a large proportion people are over the limit on Sat/Sun without realising it. I am sure that many on this site have driven the next morning after a night on the tiles feeling fine but their alcohol content in their blood would still be over the limit.
I'm sure that someone else will correct me but if I remember from my PE degree alcohol is dispersed by your body at about one unit per hour. Therefore after a heavy session you may still be over the limit well into the next afternoon or even night. You feel fine but officially you are still drink driving.
I'm not looking to excuse this womans behaviour or any others just wanted to bring up the point.
I'm sure that someone else will correct me but if I remember from my PE degree alcohol is dispersed by your body at about one unit per hour. Therefore after a heavy session you may still be over the limit well into the next afternoon or even night. You feel fine but officially you are still drink driving.
I'm not looking to excuse this womans behaviour or any others just wanted to bring up the point.
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I know everyone has a dim view of drink driving but I think that a large proportion people are over the limit on Sat/Sun without realising it. I am sure that many on this site have driven the next morning after a night on the tiles feeling fine but their alcohol content in their blood would still be over the limit.
I'm sure that someone else will correct me but if I remember from my PE degree alcohol is dispersed by your body at about one unit per hour. Therefore after a heavy session you may still be over the limit well into the next afternoon or even night. You feel fine but officially you are still drink driving.
I'm not looking to excuse this womans behaviour or any others just wanted to bring up the point.
A Friend of mine's father got banned at 3:00pm the following afternoon, after a session that finished just after midnight! He had driven all the way from ooop north to Bristol and got pulled over as he entered his housing estate!
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A BBC employee
Muahahahahaaaaaa
Totally agree.. they (the BBC) are so quick to point fingers at everyone else, that they forget that they are less than perfect themselves - wonder if the BBC will report that one then? Let me have a little search on their websites then - wanta bet? Chance of the BBC reporting this themselves? 10-1?
Scumbag press / news
Cheers,
Paul
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I'm sure that someone else will correct me but if I remember from my PE degree alcohol is dispersed by your body at about one unit per hour. Therefore after a heavy session you may still be over the limit well into the next afternoon or even night.
That could explain a lot on here...
The problem is I want the kit the police have to measure my alcohol content in the morning (a couple of million parasitical civil servants shake their heads and tut a lot). I want to be a responsible citizen but I can't because the technology is denied me. So I have no regard for the law it is S****. Picture this, it is illegal to steal but lets say if the stolen goods are auctionned and raise less then 20 quid you cannot be prosecuted. You would steal but it would be like playing russian roullete. Same applies to driving the following morning after a night on the beer, the whole thing is just bloody arbitrary. But cannabis thats OK Quentin has proved it has no effect on driving skills it just makes you psychotic. "Cars are bad and drugs are good" Sorry bit pissed 
I imagin all of you are going to disagree with me here but..
I think its ok to drive the car in the morning after a heavy night out. I don't mean severally hungover and not capable of speach. There's been many a time I've had a heavy night on the vodka's and have woken up feeling ok, then driven to the shops or something. I think the amount of alcohol in my system is not as dangerous as driving when you're tired at night or early morning or had a very heavy day at the office.
I think is all relative and we (should be) responsible adults and make the choice whether you are in good condition or not to drive.
or amybe I been living in France too long where there doesn't appear to be ANY law on D&D.....
I think its ok to drive the car in the morning after a heavy night out. I don't mean severally hungover and not capable of speach. There's been many a time I've had a heavy night on the vodka's and have woken up feeling ok, then driven to the shops or something. I think the amount of alcohol in my system is not as dangerous as driving when you're tired at night or early morning or had a very heavy day at the office.
I think is all relative and we (should be) responsible adults and make the choice whether you are in good condition or not to drive.
or amybe I been living in France too long where there doesn't appear to be ANY law on D&D.....
quote:Actually, the law there is more draconian than it is here - whether they enforce it much is an altogether different matter - kind of makes it difficult with the proportion of rural towns etc and the low population density...
or amybe I been living in France too long where there doesn't appear to be ANY law on D&D.....
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I imagin all of you are going to disagree with me here but..
I think its ok to drive the car in the morning after a heavy night out. I don't mean severally hungover and not capable of speach. There's been many a time I've had a heavy night on the vodka's and have woken up feeling ok, then driven to the shops or something. I think the amount of alcohol in my system is not as dangerous as driving when you're tired at night or early morning or had a very heavy day at the office.
I think is all relative and we (should be) responsible adults and make the choice whether you are in good condition or not to drive.
or amybe I been living in France too long where there doesn't appear to be ANY law on D&D.....
Maybe you are taking a very big risk. You may feel perfectly well and capable but someone only has to have a minor coming together with you, or you have a brake light out or something of that nature, then any amount of feeling alright will not bring your blood/breath alcohol level below the limit if it is over.
Believe me it happens and regularly. To someone who hasn't drunk alcohol for some time before bumping into the day after driver, it is very noticable!!
Yes I know its against the LAW. But I'm not on about that. My point was not to say its right or wrong thats just the majorites opinion, it was more of a point that people drive in much worst states ie very tired. I'm sure that a very large percentage do it regularly every saturday and sunday morning, so please people don't get on your high horses as I'm sure you do it yourself. Except for the non-drinkers amongst use.
I knew I was opening a can of worms here.......
I knew I was opening a can of worms here.......
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