drunk driving

[mtatum4496]

Originally Posted by ninikins

people who are against testing tend to be people who drink and drive. it's a no-no.

I didn't really think about this, but on reflection, I have to agree. As a matter of fact, I knwo someone who does object to this sort of thing and he is one who likes to go have a drink or two or three on the way home from work.

[vicki2]

I think it's a good invention idea for a couple of reasons beyond the fact that it would curtail drunken driving. One, it would create a method of self-policing before an accident happens and two, it frees up police for other things.

[ninikins]

I just cannot understand the general idea of drinking and driving and thinking its ok.

[fitnessk]

I don't drink and drive and don't like it when I hear of people I know who do. My dad's twin was killed by a drunk driver when they were teenagers. I am for stricter penalties and ways such as interlock to help prevent people from doing it again.

[Calypso]

Right after I got out of grad school, I spent four years working as a social worker in an innter city emergency department. I worked nights and weekends. All too often, I had to hold a parent's hand while the doctor told them their child had been killed by a drunk driver. I never want to hear another bereaved parent shriek their child's name in agony and helplessness. I am for anything that will stop drunk drivers.

[juol]

That would definitely help both the drunk driver and the people around him. It is very important that people should take this things more seriously and never ever take the law for granted.

[Calypso]

Often, people don't realize how impaired they really are. Althogh studies have shown that your decision making ability is affected when youb blood alcohol content reaches. 0.05 (about one drink for most of us, half a drink for smaller women), we don't start to feel drunk until our BAC is a little over 0.10. (two-tenths of a point over the legal limit here in the U.S.)

I think that's why so many people drink and drive, they just don't realize how impaired they really are!

[tater03]

We just had a two year old that died in a car accident here because the mother was plastered and she had three previous DUI's. This accident was awfull she actually split the car in two and the boy was not buckled in. I say we need these like yesterday.

[Calypso]

Oh, tater03, that sounds awful!

One of my hospital memories is kind of funny, especially since the guy ultimately pled guilty for obvious reasons. Anyway, the ambulance brought in this guy on a backboard with the cops following close behind. The guy was mad, yelling at the top of his lungs that sobriety checkpoints were unconstitutional, that he would have the cops who stopped him fired, that he would call the papers...on and on and on...

The officer just stood at the end of his bed, calmly taking notes. When the guy finally wound down after about ten minutes, the cop strolled over to the bed, leaned down so that his nose was about two inches away from the other guy's, and said pleasantly, "Oh, and by the way, sir, we did not stop you at a sobriety checkpoint. You flipped over a guardrail."

I heard later that when the guy's case came to court, he pled guilty. What else could he do, really? The hospital had everything on camera....