These are the ones that are actually causing the real drink driving fatalities.
What gets right up my nose is the propaganda that has allowed the Government and Police to turn a real issue in to a revenue gathering exercise that actually costs more lives let alone saves any.
Getting people to wake up and not just be blindly sucked in to the propaganda is the hard part. We shouldn't let ourselves be exploited like this.
msigg,
Aug 5, 6:44am
I disagree jazz, no drinking and driving is acceptable, one you are under the influence.if you want to drink /drugs take a cab. If i'm on the road doing 100km/h I don't want the opposing motorist that is on the other side of the road, 3 feet away distracted/slow reactions or under the influence to deviate into me or my family. End of. Book them all.
thejazzpianoma,
Aug 5, 6:53am
Why would you do that when it's going to result in more lives being lost?
Surely the whole point is to actually save as many lives as possible?
Disqualified from driving while he is in gaol? Life-time ban would be appropriate.
curlcrown,
Aug 5, 11:21pm
How can that be? Must be a terrible driver to even be tested that many times.
ianab,
Aug 6, 1:28am
Local cops will know him on first name basis by now, and what cars are parked at his place that he could be using. If they see him driving past they just pull him up, and smell booze. They are actually doing their job, but he just keeps getting back behind the wheel.
socram,
Aug 6, 7:43pm
The police can't watch him all the time, even if he is known, so my guess is that he's probably driven drunk 100's of times.
NZ's problem is not that the laws or enforcement is bad or even the penalties inappropriate, but that too many people just have no respect for the law. Why is that?
Is it because the penalties in some areas are too soft and there is no deterrent? Or are we bringing up children who aren't taught boundaries, standards or respect?
elect70,
Aug 7, 12:41am
Mechanic mate got done 8 times judge threatened to send himto jail but his boss always stuck up for him saying best mechanic he ever had & was indespensible . each time he was under the old limit of 100 /100 so hardly drunk
sw20,
Aug 7, 1:12am
People that get caught that much are alcoholics.
I still don't understand the lower limit BS. If it's truly about road safety why is it just demerit points and a fine when you blow between 250mcg and 400mcg? Surely if you are serious about road safety you take anyone off the road over 250mcg?
tony9,
Nov 2, 4:49pm
Are they?
No fatalities credited to either of the above ones, and no accident to the first.
Seems to me that it is younger inexperienced drinkers and drivers who cause the fatalities. Not to defend the above two drug addicts, they need some sort of help that they have not had to date.
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