To ask you for your drink-driving experiences

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Has anyone here been impacted by drink driving?

Lost a loved one to a drink driver? Had someone close to them drive whilst under the influence?

Without going into detail, I need some real accounts of how drink driving impacts lives to show to someone close to myself.

Thank you in advance.

There is never any excuse in my mind for someone to get behind a wheel even if they've had one drink. I know many don't agree with me but that's my personal belief.

I couldn’t agree more. DH used to have a pint, then drive. Since we’ve had DC I won’t get in a car he’s driving if he’s had even a single drink, and I won’t let him take the dc either. I’ve been through some tortuous and complicated journeys on public transport to prove my point. He’s got it now...

A few days before my step father drove into the trailer (story above), I refused a lift from him for the dc and I because I thought he’d been drinking. Pretty sure I was right. There but for the grace of God.

My father was an alcoholic and used to drink drive. I would see him get out of the car barely able to walk he was so drunk.
He never had an accident but I now have a phobia of driving, have tried to learn but I have panic attacks. So it doesn’t even take an accident to effect others.

My first boyfriend died aged 19. He had his whole life ahead of him. His closest friends all witnessed his painful death at the roadside. He was one of the kindest and loveliest people I have ever known, he had so much time for everyone.

The driver lost control of their car, and crashed into him on the pavement. The driver had "had a drink" but was just below the legal limit at the time (late 90s, not sure if it has changed since).

A girlfriend of mine was killed by a hit and run driver who had been drinking. Was 30 years ago this week. She was only 21.

M'y friend was going to walk home from a party but was offered a lift and climbed into the back of a mini. The drunk driver lost control, my friend banged her head on the roof as the car rolled over and has been paralysed from the chest down ever since. Another friend was driving to the local station to collect someone when a drunken driver coming the other way, overtook and smashed into my friend head on. He had to be cut out of his car by fire crew, was in hospital for three months where doctors considered amputating his leg. They managed to save his leg but to this day he still limps and suffers horribly with related arthritis. Get a taxi for God's sake if you are planning to drink

My 18 year old brother was killed by a drunk driver.
The babysitter I had my my children were toddlers went on a night out just after she'd finished uni and secured her dream job. She accepted a lift home from someone who had been drinking and was decapitated when he drove at high speed into a lamp post. Her poor mother never got over it and committed suicide a couple of years later.

School friends on way home from night out. Wrapped the car around a tree, deserted, well lit road they drove daily. Killed one passenger, the other is a permanent wheelchair user with loss of sensation from the waist down. Drive unharmed.

A friend's wife was killed by a drunk driver on Christmas Eve, She was crossing the road as he was leaving the pub to go home after drinking all afternoon. She was 19 when she died.

My best mates dad is currently in HDU and his wife on life support.

The driver was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when he overtook on a bend and smashed into them on a motorbike.

19 years old and loving my amazing life. Got crashed into by a pissed bloke in his van after I’d been serving him all night and smashed my knee caps and now live with anxiety and the entire thing triggered one of my first major episodes (bipolar). If I seen him now, I still want to fucking kill him, I’d struggle not to take his fucking head off

Yes when I was in A&E quite a few years ago, a pregnant woman was brought in in critical condition and her husband died at the scene, after being T-boned by a drunk driver. Drunk driver was also in A&E. I actually cried imagining how she’d feel if she eventually woke up.

Absolutely detest people who would even think about driving under the influence.