Drink drivers

[Dr Jekyll]

I hear that there is now a suggestion to discourage drunk driving by banning pub car parks.

Has any research been done as to where most drink drivers have got their alcohol? It would be interesting to see a breakdown as to how many in pubs, how many at events such as parties or weddings and how many at home.

I suspect it might be different for the 'extra half pint miscalculators' as opposed to those who habitually drive totally sloshed.

[Baryonyx]

I've not done any research on it, but I can't see this measure having any impact at all, not least because you could always park round the corner and indeed, many persistent drink drivers do, so that the pub staff don't ring the police.

[Dr Jekyll]

Baryonyx said:

I've not done any research on it, but I can't see this measure having any impact at all, not least because you could always park round the corner and indeed, many persistent drink drivers do, so that the pub staff don't ring the police.

+1

[TooMany2cvs]

Dr Jekyll said:

I hear that there is now a suggestion to discourage drunk driving by banning pub car parks.

And where has this "suggestion" come from?

[heebeegeetee]

Is it safer to park on the road?

[jesta1865]

where do i park if i go to the restaurant attached to the pub, that i won't drink at.

what a stupid idea!

[Dr Jekyll]

TooMany2cvs said:

And where has this "suggestion" come from?

I'm told it was a remark made in an interview by someone involved in 'Advanced' motoring. Not a proposal that will get anywhere, but interesting as an example of the 'one more ban and utopia will be ours' mentality.

[TooMany2cvs]

Dr Jekyll said:

TooMany2cvs said:

And where has this "suggestion" come from?

I'm told it was a remark made in an interview by someone involved in 'Advanced' motoring.

Riiiiiight.

So we're going by chinese whispers based on a memory of a potentially out-of-context remark by somebody who the media have played hunt-the-soundbite to find.

I'll stop panicking, if it's OK with you.

[Dr Jekyll]

TooMany2cvs said:

Riiiiiight.

So we're going by chinese whispers based on a memory of a potentially out-of-context remark by somebody who the media have played hunt-the-soundbite to find.

I'll stop panicking, if it's OK with you.

Thank you corporal Jones, but I've no idea why you were panicking, nobody else was. I just thought it would be interesting to know if there was a pattern to where drink drivers got themselves sloshed, it would be interesting even if nobody had suggested banning anything.

Edited by Dr Jekyll on Wednesday 4th February 11:42

[ging84]

any link to the source to this crap or is it small town pub talk bs?

[julianc]

So where is the designated driver for a group of drinkers going to park?

Sounds nonsense to me.

[Rude-boy]

julianc said:

So where is the designated driver for a group of drinkers going to park?

Sounds nonsense to me.

I think that only the last sentence of those two was needed!

Mind you, the number of car parks pubs are selling off for building on....

[LoonR1]

What do they do with the car park then? Does it turn into a void?

[Rude-boy]

Nope, just gets easier to convince the planners to let you pop a pair or two of semi's on it...

[LoonR1]

Rude-boy said:

Nope, just gets easier to convince the planners to let you pop a pair or two of semi's on it...

What if the pub isn't in the SE where they'll build on top of you if you stand still long enough? No chance of houses going up in pub car parks near me.

[Riley Blue]

I'd like to know where this 'suggestion' originated because other than this thread, the internet appears to know nothing about it.

[defblade]

Dr Jekyll said:

Baryonyx said:

I've not done any research on it, but I can't see this measure having any impact at all, not least because you could always park round the corner and indeed, many persistent drink drivers do, so that the pub staff don't ring the police.

+1

+2

Although it may be that the people whose house around the corner they park outside ring the police anyway

Haven't seen that van here for a long time now...

[ging84]

LoonR1 said:

What do they do with the car park then? Does it turn into a void?

they all need to build a shire to Eric pickles in it