Northern Ireland Crackdown ‘Nets’ 1,700 Drivers

Meanwhile – 256 drug deals went on undisturbed , 549 burglaries , 3 rapes and 2 murders , 4 flashing offences and 17 pub brawls – but never mind the police were out in force cracking down on car drivers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@drivel wrote:

Meanwhile – 256 drug deals went on undisturbed , 549 burglaries , 3 rapes and 2 murders , 4 flashing offences and 17 pub brawls – but never mind the police were out in force cracking down on car drivers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drunk drivers deserve to be clamped down on. Who cares if they kill themselves – the problem however is that a lot of the time they also kill innocent people who happened to get in their way.

Only 52 people in that one evening were found to be over the legal drink drive limit? Wow we should throw out the drink drive limit altogether so everyone can drink as much as they like and drive home. After all, people drive better after a few drinks eh?

It’s one thing to complain about police being out only to enforce seat belt laws or something comparitively minor, but to complain because the police are enforcing drink drive laws just shows that you haven’t thought the issues through either due to arrogance or a lack of intellectual ability.

@chathostuk wrote:

Only 52 people in that one evening were found to be over the legal drink drive limit? Wow we should throw out the drink drive limit altogether so everyone can drink as much as they like and drive home. After all, people drive better after a few drinks eh?

It’s one thing to complain about police being out only to enforce seat belt laws or something comparitively minor, but to complain because the police are enforcing drink drive laws just shows that you haven’t thought the issues through either due to arrogance or a lack of intellectual ability.

Why the personal attack – I’m only voicing my opinion

I have nothing against police arresting drunken drivers – howevere I pointed out they probably wouldn’t be drunk – just over whatever is the legal limit

It’s the other 1600 that I was on about

@bassingbourne55 wrote:

We should have a near zero alcohol limit for driving, allowing for no more than a residual trace.

So mamy people that go binge drinking one night get behind the wheel the next morning, unaware that they are still over the limit. It would be interesting to see the results of random breath tests on drivers on their way to work on a Monday morning.

Probably most people who had been drinking the night before would fail a breath test – it takes 12 hours doesn’t it to clear the system !!
If you are caught drink driving then make it a 3 year or 5 year ban – then the police can get on with doing something about bringing law and order to the communities

Better still have a Transport Police to take care of transport matters – looking at the power now handed to VOSA perhaps they could tackle that !