Drink Driving
 

Not me.


I have a drinking acquaintance who is an habitual drink driver, he is out 7 days a week and weekdays will have about 6 pints in the evening and take home a couple of bottles for when he gets in. Weekends it is probably about 10 pints. He always buys in 2 and half when last order is called for later on when the till has closed.

Trouble is at least 3 times a week he will drive the 2 mile home. The bar manager has talked to him about it, I have as well.

He knows he should not do it, having been banned twice in the past for drink driving. He freely admits to being an alcoholic as if that is an excuse.

We tell him to get a taxi booked. He lies and says he has. Next thing you think he has gone outside for a cig, and his car is disappearing.

He got a nasty scare about 6 weeks ago when the car behind him went blue and overtook him as he was pulling to the side, unfortunately it carried on at high speed. He learned his lesson for about 3 days.

It isn't anything to do with me. He has his own life. Sad personal circumstances and now on his own looking after a teenage son. Loss of a licence for 10 years would probably destroy that family.

Do I simply cringe whenever I see him heading for the carpark. He once even handed over his keys to the manager. But had a spare so he could collect the car in the morning so a useless gesture as his car was not there come locking up time. I don't want to grass him, but for the sake of everyone else on the road his time is well and truely overdue.


Dear Org. Please help me with this dilemma

Re: Drink Driving
 

Shop him...

6 days a week and twice on Sunday...

Looking at it from on outsider's POV to me either it destroys his family and gives him a wake up call, or it destroys the family of the person/people he kills when he has a smash

Re: Drink Driving
 

Do what Homer did to Barney for drink driving - slam his head repeatedly in the car door. What a tosser.

Re: Drink Driving
 

You can contact Police anonymously or use Crimestoppers. There is NO excuse for drink driving. Ever.

On my last dayshift I dealt with a boy who had drank 3 pints and then wrapped his car round a BT pole in a residential street. Could easily have been a person.

Re: Drink Driving
 

This will ruffle a few feathers but Id ask is he actually dangerous on the road,and has he got a poor accident record?I dont drink and drive ever,but I would argue that some drink drivers are safer than some sober ones whose attitude makes them lethal without chemical help.

Re: Drink Driving
 

Shop him. It may destroy his own family, but what if the worst happens he may well destroy somebody else's.

I know its hard Tim, but my friend was killed by drunk driver in 2006 and I dont have any tolerance for it. Especially after seeing the damage it did to Petes family and my circle of friends.

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I would tell him. Something like 'if you get in that car ****ed ever again then I'm dialling 999. On your own head be it'

Re: Drink Driving
 

Crimestoppers 0800 555 111

Or Lancashire Constabulary contacts page

No-one need know it was you, we get loads and make lots of arrests in very similar circumstances.

Do it ASAP.

Pete

Re: Drink Driving
 

After 10 pints?!?! there is no way that he will not be impaired in his driving after 10 pints! He may not be roaring drunk but his reactions etc will be slowed. His decision making will also be impaired so that should he have to make a snap decision he won't be able to.

His accident record shows nothing. All it shows is that he has been lucky. Alcohol can affect even the most tolerant of drinkers in strange ways. One night after 10 pints he could be ok, the next night he could be steaming drunk.

Re: Drink Driving
 

when he goes in the pub let all his tyres down, then he cant drive off :D