Drink Driving...

Drink Driving, Definately bad behaviour, I believe completely drink driving is wrong and there is no excuse especially after reading the case studies on the internet of vicitms who have to live with the consequences of someone elses haste to get somewhere. I dont no what can be worth getting in your car for knowing your over the limit....

On average 3,000 people in the United Kingdom alone are killed or injured by drink driving collisions, nearly 1 in 6 deaths on the road involve a driver who is over the limit. The latest provisional figures from 2004, show that some 590 people were killed in crashes in which a driver was over the legal limit, 2,350 were seriously injured and 14,050 were slightly injured.
Over half a million breath tests are carried out every year with 100,00 coming up as positive.

Now i know myself ive never been sure about the morning after the night before, are you able to drive? well apparently whatever you do to sober yourself up you are still likely to be over the legal limit the next morning and could loose your license if you attempt to drive. Driving whilst over the limit can carry a maximum penalty of 6 months in prison, £5,000 fine and a 12 month driving ban it will also stay on your license for 11 years. Causing death by drink driving carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
http://www.drinkdrivingfacts.com/drinkdriving/drink_driving_facts.aspx

Now i know this might be fact overload, but there i could still fill your brain with loads more penalties if caught drink driving, but the point of me putting them all down is that i honestly dont see how any of it is worth it and why anyone would take that risk when you could just jump in a taxi and save yourself all of the above.

I read a story online about a woman named Jacqueline Saburido whos picture is at the top of my blog, if any of you get the time her story is interesting she was in the car of a drink driver and when it crashed she got caught as the car went into flames, it just made me realise how stupid i have been when i was younger and how lucky I am, years ago i went in a couple of cars knowing the driver had been drinking but i would never in a million years do it now it just goes to show not everybody is that lucky....