... to expect mums at dd's school not to be filled with hate for me because i have to give a witness statement after one of them hit a pregnant ladies car head on after having a couple of drinks b4 the school run!!

[alittleone2]

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About 25% of our drink drivers are morning after the night before who are stunned and shocked to fail a breathalyser on their way to work in the morning. - It takes much less than some people think. Glad to know so many people on here are aware of units and times, this is not generally the case when we do our preventative work.

Thank goodness the baby is okay.

I have never drunk and then driven and never would as I am a light weight when it comes to alcohol and nothing is worth what could happen.

corblimeycharlie, do you think those people really aren't aware they are not suitable to drive??

When I or DP have drank the night before, and not heavily, say a bottle of wine for me and 6 cans for him, it takes us til at least the afternoon, to be able to think straight.

I can't imagine that all the people who say they didnt think they were over the limit actually felt fine to drive. More like they assumed they were under the limit but didn't feel 100%

Yes I would say they didn't give it enough thought and felt under pressure to be somewhere the next day. Rarely are they going into town for a spot of shopping.
More usually they drank more than expected or later into the evening and then had to go to work, pick up someone or in some cases went to collect their cars from town centres the next morning and hoped they would be ok.

The ones who genuinely were shocked are usually people who drank moderately the night before but had to drive early. Police stop them because they assume they are returning home from pubs at 4am but they are postmen on their way to work.
By the time they meet me they have been convicted and banned so they are usually telling the truth, they have nothing to gain by lying at that point.

I still think many of them would have been aware they didn't feel 100%, they may not have thought they were over the limit, and may have thought that driving with a hangover wasn't the same as driving drunk, but if you don't feel right, you shouldn't drive, regardless of the amount of alcohol in your blood.

The only times I could really understand it is if it is a genuine emergency requiring a hospital dash or other such like circumstances, then if you beleive you are under the limit, you would probably feel the importance of that journey outweighed the way you felt.

YANBU. Try and rise above any nastyness at school. She'll get done big time, with any luck. I can't beleive that other mums are condoning her drink driving. I reckon she hasn't had the balls to tell them that part .

Have there been any further developments???

I know - I am very nosy, but I keep thinking about this.

I'm so glad that so many MNers are dead sure they've never driven over the limit - I don't drink alcohol, so I can safely say not as well And I do think that drink driving is beyond the pale, and this woman over the limit with kids in the car, and kids around is beyond, beyond, beyond

It is a shame how people can lose everything for one stupid mistake. It's worse that they can take everything away from someone else through their stupid mistake. Hard to have sympathy when they're not just gambling with their own lives.

I agree with VS, if you know that you're going to need to drive in the next 12 hours then you have to think about your alcohol intake. DH does drink alcohol, but if he knows he's driving the next morning then he won't even have one glass of wine with dinner because it makes him a bit 'fuzzy' the next morning.

yanbu
the other women are fwits as well

i can safely say i have never driven over the limit, then again, i cant drive!

but i can also safely say dh has never driven over the limit. its a matter of sense!

as for the OP YADefinatelyNBU!!!

excellent idea to tip off the local paper. Let the local news station know as well, then they can film her and everyone at school will know her

I'm afraid I have zero sympathy for drink-drivers, whatever their reason for doing it. A few years ago in a village near where we live 2 little girls (aged about 10 iirc) were running an errand for one of their mums after school. They were outside a shop on the pavement when a 4x4 with bullbars on the front mounted the pavement & crushed one of them against the shop front. The poor wee mite died (instantly I hope) & her friend was injured (she was luckier & didn't get the full force). The driver, who was over the limit, left the car where it was pinning the little girl to the wall & went to a friend's house. He had a record for driving offences & was convicted but is in an open prison & is allowed home visits to a street where his victim's auntie lives

Alittleone2 I'm glad the lady & her baby are okay. You are 100% doing the right thing & I hope you can continue to hold your head up & ignore any silly bitches you might come across.

i feel ill after reading that
jesus h christ
sickening

'Fraid I would yell at the top of my voice "How proud you must be to have a drink driving maniac as a friend who doesn't give a shit who she might kill or injure" and walk away.

Confront them head on and they'll back away in shock. This is how I deal with whisperers, I cannot stand it!

And good on you for standing up to them.

Just do the right thing alittleone2, ignore the evil whisperers, they are wrong. Gang mentality rools ok everywhere in Britain today doesn't it

Her reputation will be destroyed by the local press. "Drunken Mum in 4x4 spree ..."
I was a car accident victim whilst pregnant and sympathise entirely with the poor woman in the accident - and the OP for doing her duty by providing a witness statement.

Was there any outcome from this? I was thinking about it today (as I watched 2 yummy mummy types park their 4x4s on the zig zag lines at the school gates).

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If it continues I would point out to one of the women that she was over the limit. Ask them how they would feel if someone who was over the limit hit their child outside school, my guess would be that she hasn't told her friends the whole story.

YANBU

Ooh, I'm curious about how this turned out as well. Alittleone2, what happened?

YA Sooooooo NBU
I can only agree with the other posters, her coven must not be aware that she was over the limit and on the wrong side of the road. If uninformed people are whispering about you, I'd say you were utterly justified in telling your side of the story.