To ask you how far you'd go to stop a friend from frequently drink driving

I’d take his keys, ask others to do the same and I’d report him. I wouldn’t stay friends with him. We lost a relative because a drunk driver mounted the pavement and ran him over.

Drink driving is such an unnecessary thing to do and the consequences can be devastating.

Of course you must report him! What would you do if you knew he was regularly going around drunk with a loaded gun in his hand?

I'd report to the police.. each and every time!

YABU because you should absolutely have reported already.
My life was ruined by a drunk driver. I suffer pain daily and have for the last 27 years due to it. It has affected my entire life.

If you've known and know he drives while drinking excessively then I wouldn't have hesitated reporting before now.I wouldn't sit down with him, if he doesn't know basics then he shouldn't be driving. God forbid that was my children he could run into!

i wouldn't hesitate to report at all. he could kill someone. why on earth wouldn't you ring the police? I never understand this sort of staying out behaviour

My job involves children who have been hit by drunk drivers or in innocent cars mangled by the accidents the drunks cause. The faces of so many parents and young siblings are burned into my mind.

People like you who know it's happening yet never want to report them - the only thing that will stop these idiots - are among the most selfish, disgusting members of society. I hope if he continues it's one of your kids he hits and not one of mine. Everyone knows about these people and everyone wrings their hands when it happens, but the ones with the power to stop it never do. Disgraceful.

Coming from someone who has seen the devastation of drink driving I would be livid.

make it known to him and his family and friends how wrong this is and that everyone who knows him should be sharing the same opinion as you directly to him.

i would 100% be calling the police on him

Don't understand why you are stopping short of reporting him. Glad to see you will be.

Call the police and give his vehicle registration and his details.

Report him, no question. Hope he can be stopped before Friday.

If a company van, let the company know.
If you know the place on Friday where he goes, let them know, and ask them not to serve him, preferably to ban him from the premises. With the registration of the van if you have it.

Well, you can phone the police or you can steal his keys I suppose.
If you watch him get into a vehicle and drive off after drinking, and he kills someone, you’ll never get over the guilt

I'd report him and I'd be up front and tell him I'd do it. But then my favourite uncle was killed by a drunk driver a few days before his wedding day. His wedding cake was served at his funeral.

If you have tried to tell him not to, the only thing left is to report him

I’d tell him that I didn’t want to be friends with him anymore and that I would be phoning the police each and every time I saw him drink and then get behind the wheel.

What’s his current deterrent? He drinks, he drives. So far, he’s been lucky and nobody has been hurt. And his friends might nag him a bit, but then they settle down and it goes back to normal. Why would he stop? Clearly, the thought of the consequences isn’t enough to stop him, so perhaps he needs to experience some of the lesser consequences, (like losing friends, being arrested and losing his licence) before someone else has to deal with more serious consequences of his utter stupidity and selfishness.

Sadly reporting it does very little.

It depends on your area I guess and what initiatives the police are undertaking.

Where I live they are really hot on it, using community info and online reporting to identify habitual offenders and stake them out.

In the posh village where my sister lives it sometimes feels like there are more people driving pissed than not, nobody gives a fuck.

Intel is everything at the end of the day, report report report.

I reported mine to the police. I told him i would if he did it again

My children are driving on the same road. He could kill one of them

I voted YABU for not reporting him sooner. People ate more likely to die being hit by a van, so they don't need to be going over the speed limit etc. I've known a few children/teens killed by vans, they would have had a chance of survival if hit by a car. 4×4s are the same. As said when a child is killed, in court it always comes out that people knew. You are morally aiding and abetting a serious crime.

The only way to sort this is to report it. If you see him driving and know he has been drinking you need to report it.

Sadly reporting it does very little.

I reported someone I knew who drove pissed on a daily basis. As did many others.
I gave the times, place, car registration and home address. I reported it several times and in different ways.

But, because I was never actually there when it happened I couldn't call 999 or remove his keys.

He never got stopped.

So, basically the only real deterrent is to remove the keys from someone. Reporting does fuck all!

Absolutely 100% report him.

If he feels it's not a problem then let the police be the judge of that.

I remember a drunk/drug driver where I used to live hitting some school kids and killing one of them.

My mil reported my fil for drink driving and he got caught and lost his licence. She has no regrets

He's about to get his licence back, hasn't stopped drinking and so will probably do it again. I will absolutely report him again if necessary

You phone the police.
That’s it.
If you allow him to carry on with your knowledge and consent you are partly responsible for any accidents he might have.

You've said he doesn't think there's a problem, so next time you see him drinking and getting in his car, you need to call the police on 999.

I've been hit by a drunk driver. He'd "just had a couple after work", exactly as you describe. Because he was under the influence, rather than stop and help me, or phone an ambulance, he left me for dead in the road.

I've heard of reporting in advance too, obviously they need to catch him in the act before they will do anything.
If you know a time & place that he will be on say Friday like you say, if you tell the police they will wait for him probably in an unmarked car. Then all he has to do is get in the vehicle to drive and they will stop him in his tracks & arrest him.
I know you're concerned about doing it because he's your friend, but it isn't snidey doing this, you're potentially saving his life and someone else's.