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DONT DRINK AND DRIVE......please

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Sorry i hadn't seen it before, but worthy of repetition at this time of year. Put you off of drink driving-it puts me off of driving period!
 
I could not wach past 3 min
 
Sorry dash. I know what you mean:(
 
That does hit hard. Useful to watch though.
 
.....agree I'm tea total anyway but I find it hard to comprehend that anyone can be as selfish and stupid as to take the chance of drink driving.
 
Drink driving is something I would never even consider, the number of deaths resulting from it speak for themselves. I don't drink much at all, only very occasionally, and I avoid drinking when I know I'll be driving at anytime soon after. It's just not worth the risk.
The video certainly gets the point across, but, I fear that the only people who watch it will be the ones who never drink and drive anyway.
 
As someone who has had 'the knock on the door' at 3am (some years ago), should anyone feel that it's ok to drink and drive, please feel free to pm me and I will let you know how this affects yourself and your family.
It's not nice.
 
A140driver said:
........the number of deaths resulting from it speak for themselves.
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While I do not condone drink driving, I am sure the death toll from driving would not reduce significantly if, miraculously, people stopped drinking and driving. When I read comments as the above, I find it annoying that some people try to give the impression that most deaths on the road are atributed to drink drivers, they are not. There may be as many caused by illegal use of mobile phones when driving, or by the legal use of pedestrians who are then not concentrating on where they are going and walk out into the road. The revenue spent on advertising, especially this time of year does seem a tad disproportionate, although I beleive not so much this year.
 
geoff is right though - even if all drink driving was eradicated overnight it would represent only a tiny% reduction in overal casualties and injuries on our roads.

drink driving is extremley emotive in it's nature and the way it affects people - in particular you have to feel for people like 'ted' above who have had a 3am knock at the door - a horrific thing to have to deal with, my deepest sympathies to ted. But is in no way the greatest contributor to death and injury on our roads.
 
Geoff2 said:
While I do not condone drink driving, I am sure the death toll from driving would not reduce significantly if, miraculously, people stopped drinking and driving. .
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What makes you so sure? Do you have some figures to back up this assertion. We would need to see, for example, the proportion of deaths and serious injuries from accidents in which one or other party had been drinking? And not just where they are over the UK limit. Numerous tests have shown those just under the limit have their reactions seriously impaired (and their judgement of risk greatly reduced).
 
Just to make this straight, my knock on the door was because of a truck driver who had driven his truck knowing the brakes were faulty, ignoring the light, and disabling the buzzer, it was not as a result of drink driving.

It doesn't change the way I feel about drink driving.

And also to set the record straight, I'm also a hippocrite, as I have done things in my youth including driviing whilst intoxicated, for which I am truly ashamed.

It still doesn't change the way I feel about drink driving.
 
Is it just me that finds this kind of mawkish message completely ineffective? A series of staged accidents (in which, incidentally, none of the drivers was drunk), people (actors?) feigning grief and a heart-tugging soundtrack - it all just looks like something from a film, and thus loses credibility, IMO.

I never drink and drive (in fact, I hardly ever drink at all), but none of this would make me think twice about drink-driving if I were ever inclined to do so. The people who do drink and drive do so because they believe they are still capable, therefore they will dimiss this kind of message as being irrelevant to them.

The one drink-drive advert that has always impressed me for its straight-talking succinctness is the one below, as it deals with the consequences of being caught rather than relying on the driver recognising his own weaknesses.

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Watching the video (the OP's video) was very hard for me, I lost a friend in a car accident this year, whilst it wasn't drink related, it does shock you into realising that whenever we drive we are in charge of a lethal weapon.

Whilst drink driving isn't the only cause of accidents and deaths on our roads, reducing it by even the smallest amount is a good thing.

I think we should all watch the video and think...could I drive better... I know I could.
 
Ted said:
Just to make this straight, my knock on the door was because of a truck driver who had driven his truck knowing the brakes were faulty, ignoring the light, and disabling the buzzer, it was not as a result of drink driving.

It doesn't change the way I feel about drink driving.

And also to set the record straight, I'm also a hippocrite, as I have done things in my youth including driviing whilst intoxicated, for which I am truly ashamed.

It still doesn't change the way I feel about drink driving.
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Your excellent post does help to put this thread into a proper perspective.
Of course any normal person will dissapprove of driving whilst unfit due to alcohol, but and its a big but,there are many other driving events which also cause death, injury and misery and these seem to be ignored and far to much emphasis is put on the drink issue.
Our roads are a paradise for idiots, as any of the other high mileage, and probably many of the lower mileage, drivers will tell you.
I'd like to see as much emphasis put on ridding us of the scourge of the bad and dangerous driver as is put on drink drivers.
I appreciate that so emotive is this area of debate that some just see drink driving as the great road going taboo but there is so much else going on out there, if we really wanted to do something to reduce road deaths and serious injury we would visit periodic compulsary retesting, eye tests, reduce lorry sizes, have speed limiters in all vehicles and probably the area that will cause most anguish, ban motorcycles!
 
Tan said:
Watching the video (the OP's video) was very hard for me, I lost a friend in a car accident this year, whilst it wasn't drink related, it does shock you into realising that whenever we drive we are in charge of a lethal weapon.

Whilst drink driving isn't the only cause of accidents and deaths on our roads, reducing it by even the smallest amount is a good thing.

I think we should all watch the video and think...could I drive better... I know I could.
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I feel exactly the same, my Nan was run down and killed on a zebra crossing. I don't drink but when I watch that video I think-R2, you've gotta drive better:(
 
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