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Are the drink driving laws in the uk adequate? Is enough being done to prevent drink driving? Is enough being done to catch drink drivers? Are sentences too lenient or too severe?
THE DD LAWS ARE FAR TO SEVERE AND ACHIEVE VERY LITTLE, OTHER THAN CRIMINALIZING A LARGE PORTION OF THE UK POPULATION.
MPs backing drink-drive car locks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3986711.stm
These are good 'thinking' ideas
There should be a 'drive to work' permit like they have elsewhere. One aim of the criminal justice system is to reduce offences. Becoming unemployed could make someone more prone to reoffending. The motorist would still have the inconveniance of not having transport for social purposes.
A 12 month ban is sufficient punishment for a 1st time offender. Bans of 2 years (+) are counter productive in that those returning to the road could be a liability to other road users.
Alcolocks are a good idea. There's legislation somewhere that if you get an alcolock fitted (at your own expense) your ban is halved. Unfortunately - there needs to be scheme on your area - and there are none of these schemes anywhere!
I don't think there's a problem with the criminal punishment, which is in line with offences of a similar nature.
Some places on the continent, although have lower tolerance, have lower punishment for low BAC readings such as fixed penalties with points and a small fine.
The main reason I am not a drinking driver is that I see what happens to people and I dont want to be nursed by people who I know feel the same as me"
Probably poorly written.
No patient I personally have ever looked after has 'gone without' any medical or nursing need' as a result of my anti drinking and driving attitudes/beliefs. While I may not agree with some of my code of conduct I work well within it. I wouldnt like to risk my registration on a Drunk driver who feels he has been hard done by. I have looked after far worse with no change in my professional responsibility. A convicted murderer and paedophile being examples of the worst.
I see the injuries they both sustain and inflict and dont particularly want a broken anything (regardless of how it happened.).
However I know staff who have blatently ignored anything more than basic needs or will choose to attend to something else first and make them wait a while longer. This is often blatently obvious to other patients if the drunk driver has killed someone and with the way that the law is currently you know that a fine and losing the licence is probably all they will get if they get the 'right ' lawyer.
"is this comment of yours correct for someone in the nursing profession? You appear to imply that certain people get lesser medical treatment from professional nurses?!"
I often wonder where people get the idea that nurses and doctors are perfect, that we do not have a right to have an opinion. I have lots of dislikes but very few will prevent me from giving the highest standard of care as required to each individual patients needs. In a supervisory role I would not tolerate any less of my staff.
But it happens.
Oh and I do not eat, smoke or use the phone while I am driving either.
"your personal circumstances and relationship with your father in law aside..."
As for this, unlike my Father in law, I loved my Dad dearly and I would feel the same way if he had done the same thing- though I wouldnt have to pussy foot around him on the issue- He would be well aware of what he had done- Unfortunately he is dead, and is one of the very few people who appreciate my point of view, so I have no one to rant to.
"A typical female point of view...highly subjective, zero objectivity, and an incredible lack of the 'Bigger Picture!' Lets thank GOD your gender do not run the World...seriously, otherwise we all would of been 'vaporised' a long time ago!!! "
From someone who 'admits' driving 3 times over them limit.
Since I came to look at this forum. Its full of people trying to justify their drink driving .
For may of you its not if, but when you kill someone or leave your family to pick up the pieces.
I live the bigger picture with the pain and suffering the likes of you cause. Those of you who seem to think you have been hard done by, perhaps need to wake up before you kill somone.
I would like to see drunk driving on a par with attempted murder...but then I am a typical female, highly subjective with zero objectivity who thinks drunk drivers are all murderers in waiting and vapourisation would be too good a way out for you. I personally dont want to run the world but your gender are not doing a great job either.
I wonder how you would feel if a drunk driver hurt or killed a loved one....I hope you never have to find out
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I would like to see drunk driving on a par with attempted murder...but then I am a typical female, highly subjective with zero objectivity who thinks drunk drivers are all murderers in waiting and vapourisation would be too good a way out for you. I personally dont want to run the world but your gender are not doing a great job either.
I wonder how you would feel if a drunk driver hurt or killed a loved one....I hope you never have to find out
I agree with some of the other posts that point out that a ban can affect different people in radically different ways.