When drivers are being arrested multiple times in a single year, it’s clear the system isn’t working. We need real consequences and real prevention.
ChiralNavigator on
Alcoholics/addicts won’t stop until they want to. Does t matter how often you lock them up or send them to rehab.
But while addiction isn’t a choice, driving while under the influence is a choice.
Chronic alcoholics will have Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD), so it’s like dealing with someone with dementia.
Alcoholics can even go on to develop seizures .
drumnamona on
Every pub car park will be packed over the weekend. If you were serious about stamping out drink driving you’d start by having checkpoints near them. Anything else is just window dressing
Any_Peace_1187 on
Great fodder for the conspiracy theorists
TarMc on
Vehicles belonging to repeat offenders should be seized and sold at auction.
MushyFella on
Doesn’t sound like there’s consequences to being arrested for drink driving if you have the chance to do it 11 times in one year.
lkavo on
Getting out of a drink driving charge in Ireland is ridiculously easy. If a guard stops you, arrests you, tests you and you are 3 times over the limit you can still get away with for stupid things like the guard used a road side breath test(seriously I am not joking), the guard left out 1 word of the legal requirement to provide a sample while giving his evidence etc.
We need to move to a system like they have in Australia where you’re over the limit, it’s an automatic driving ban and the police just take your licence off you. You shouldn’t be able to defend being 3 times plus over the limit.
Margrave75 on
I know three people currently still driving, that are serving driving bans for being caught drink driving!
SexyBaskingShark on
So instead of enforcement of the people committing the crime we introduce something annoying into everyone else’s life
ChaosActual on
Or maybe we actually enforce the law and punish those who break it
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When drivers are being arrested multiple times in a single year, it’s clear the system isn’t working. We need real consequences and real prevention.
Alcoholics/addicts won’t stop until they want to. Does t matter how often you lock them up or send them to rehab.
But while addiction isn’t a choice, driving while under the influence is a choice.
Chronic alcoholics will have Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD), so it’s like dealing with someone with dementia.
Alcoholics can even go on to develop seizures .
Every pub car park will be packed over the weekend. If you were serious about stamping out drink driving you’d start by having checkpoints near them. Anything else is just window dressing
Great fodder for the conspiracy theorists
Vehicles belonging to repeat offenders should be seized and sold at auction.
Doesn’t sound like there’s consequences to being arrested for drink driving if you have the chance to do it 11 times in one year.
Getting out of a drink driving charge in Ireland is ridiculously easy. If a guard stops you, arrests you, tests you and you are 3 times over the limit you can still get away with for stupid things like the guard used a road side breath test(seriously I am not joking), the guard left out 1 word of the legal requirement to provide a sample while giving his evidence etc.
We need to move to a system like they have in Australia where you’re over the limit, it’s an automatic driving ban and the police just take your licence off you. You shouldn’t be able to defend being 3 times plus over the limit.
I know three people currently still driving, that are serving driving bans for being caught drink driving!
So instead of enforcement of the people committing the crime we introduce something annoying into everyone else’s life
Or maybe we actually enforce the law and punish those who break it
Is that too much to ask