Drink Driving

[cherrytree63]

Will cut straight to the point. Is there a police phone line I can ring to get an officer to catch someone actually DD'ing? As opposed to turning up sometime after the act, ie when home and can deny driving home from the pub?

ps... sorry if I've posted in the wrong section

999

When I've rang 999 before, because of a robbery and attempted assault, the police took ages to turn up.

Its 999. If you know they do it regularly (like every Friday from the same pub) you can call 101 and give them the care details and they will arrange to wait in the area around the time.

I did this with a colleague that I knew was driving without a license and drunk.

car details

Why are you so desperate to grass this person up?

Solid? Really?

They are desparate as someone is committing a serious crime.

If you saw some one wandering down your street with a sawn off shot gun you'd call the police. A car driven by a pissed twat is just as dangerous and should be reported.

Well done OP.

Well done OP

I can't abide drink drivers . Selfish selfish people

Yep well done OP

sawn off shotgun and dangerously driven car== dangerous weapons

solids perhaps because this person has a good chance of killing someone, perhaps someones husband or wife or children or all of the above?

And because its illegal?

As this has been posted in Relationships, my guess is the OP wants to stitch up her ex-partner.

A DD conviction, being criminal, has to be disclosed in job applications, insurance forms etc. If the aim here is to dob in someone because they are being irresponsible then fine. But if she is in any way economically dependent on that person and just wants to do them ill, then articulating a threat to do this may be a better way. Otherwise she'll feel the pain too.

Drink-driving is one of those things people get remarkably squawky about if they're a bit hard of thinking. It's a factor in 23% of road accidents. Which means that 77% of road accidents have nothing to do with drink-driving, yet drink-driving has been labelled as the Worst Thing In The World that All The Righteous Despise.

So the OP may just be feeling malicious, which isn't terribly healthy.

(Oh, and before anyone upsets themselves, or wets themselves and decides that I must be a longstanding drink-driver - I do not drive. I do not own a car and never have done.)

Whether she is dependent on them/being vindictive/seeking revenge/whatever it should still bee reported. It's unlikely that this will be the first time this person has done this and drunk drivers are a tragic accident waiting to happen.

If she stood by and did nothing and they maimed some innocent young family there would be outrage (and rightly so).

Phone the police.

And i'm sorry, but if 23% of accidents could be avoided, then i hardly think people who are against DD are hard of thinking. Jesus wept.

I don't get your logic Solid...it ISN't responsible for 77% of RTA, but 23% is a pretty high percentage, that's nearly a quarter of all RTAs caused by some selfish sod who decided to drink more than they should and drive. Does it really have to effect someone you know and love before you see the danger in that?
I'd report it too OP.

My dad drove out a car park with me (6 year old) and my sister (4 year old), a man drove his car straight into the side of us, hadn't seen us, when he got out the car he could barely stand, he was totally out his face, older man, in his 50's. He could have killed us, so OP, even if it is an ex or someone, definately report them....

And it's seen as a bad thing because it kills people...and that's hard of thinking because????

I take it you have never experienced the consequences of a drink driving incident then Solid?

Words fail me! I presume solid is not the usually intelligent and insightful SGB?

Solid, sometimes you don't half talk some shit

Drink driving is definitely something to get "squawky" about

Or perhaps if your ds gets knocked over by a drink driver, you would simply say "oh well, he was just unlucky in being involved in that type that constitutes a quarter of RTA's"

Perhaps you should learn to drive... then you would be a bit better at understanding quite how much being under the influence of alcohol makes a car into a lethal weapon.

viggle, it's one and the same

sometimes sgb gets a bit hard of social conscience

Drink driving may account for "only" 23% of accidents, but it accounts for a sixth of road deaths according to ROSPA. Hardly something only the "hard of thinking" should be bothered about, surely.

It's not the "Worst thing in the world", obviously. But it should be something that "All The Righteous Despise".

two of my friends were killed by a drink driver. just one of those 23% though eh?

OP if you know of someone doing this then you can just call 101 and give the car details, where they drink and if there is any kind of pattern (ie what time they drive home)
people do this all the time - its how we catch a lot of drunks driving. we generally just pog up somewhere along their route and wait for them to pass, look at manner of driving, give the car a tug and assess what we can see/smell on speaking to the driver.

people who drink and drive kill people.

I would definately report it if i knew someone was drink driving. Id rather they were stopped & got in trouble than have someones death on my conscience.

Id phone 101 rather than 999.

I remember informing a parent that their 23 year old daughter had been killed by a drink driver that evening and she was really squawky about it. She felt much better when I explained it really wasn't The Worst Thing In The World.

Not.