Drink Drive Scotland

Huskydog, bravo!  my tipple when driving is lemonade and Lime, - very refreshing.

BUT before we all jump on the bandwagon of demanding lower limits lets just stop and think for a minute on its possible effect on the good old British Pub.  They are already suffering and around my immediate area three have closed permanently in the last twelve months.

The British country pub has been part of our history for Centuries and I for one would not like to see them forced out of business.

I think we do need to adhere to Huskydogs credo, but ensure that there remains enough business to keep the pubs open, - and unique in their rural style.

One area that we perhaps aught to follow is the Japanese system of 'Driver Assist".  There the Alcohol limit for drivers is Zero %.  A group of people will nominate a Duty driver before they go out and that person may only drink soft drinks all night. But one the odd occasion he/she has a drink, - perhaps by accident, all they need to do is telephone the local taxi company who will send out a very small two seat Suzuki Alto or similar with two qualified drivers in it. When they get to the "distressed Driver" the spare driver in the Alto will get into the callers car and drive his/her car back to their home, followed by the little Suzuki.  When the caller is home with his car and party all safe. The spare driver will get back into the susuki & return to base.  The service is cheap as it is govt sposored and the Suzuke is very economical.

TF

Should be zero tolerance and if your driving next morning don't drink so much where it would be a problem. Personally I think anyone who is caught driving over the limit should be found instantly guilty with attempted murder and anyone who causes death by drink driving should be found instantly guilty of premeditated murder.

I agree with fur ball.  NO Drinking at all Zero tolerance and if you injure mame  or kill defiantly should be attempted murder 

after all you knowingly get into a care which becomes a lethal weapon if you have been drinking, 

Me and OH too have a no-drink for the driver, so we take turns.  But what I would like to know is just because the law has changed and there seems to be hardly any drink-driving about, is it because there are fewer police about now to catch any potential over the limit drivers.  Many times when we've gone out somewhere, even over long distances, I rarely see police cars about

Huskydog, bravo!  my tipple when driving is lemonade and Lime, - very refreshing.

BUT before we all jump on the bandwagon of demanding lower limits lets just stop and think for a minute on its possible effect on the good old British Pub.  They are already suffering and around my immediate area three have closed permanently in the last twelve months.

The British country pub has been part of our history for Centuries and I for one would not like to see them forced out of business.

I think we do need to adhere to Huskydogs credo, but ensure that there remains enough business to keep the pubs open, - and unique in their rural style.

One area that we perhaps aught to follow is the Japanese system of 'Driver Assist".  There the Alcohol limit for drivers is Zero %.  A group of people will nominate a Duty driver before they go out and that person may only drink soft drinks all night. But one the odd occasion he/she has a drink, - perhaps by accident, all they need to do is telephone the local taxi company who will send out a very small two seat Suzuki Alto or similar with two qualified drivers in it. When they get to the "distressed Driver" the spare driver in the Alto will get into the callers car and drive his/her car back to their home, followed by the little Suzuki.  When the caller is home with his car and party all safe. The spare driver will get back into the susuki & return to base.  The service is cheap as it is govt sposored and the Suzuke is very economical.

TF

 

 

Write your comments here...I think that good old English Pub died decades ago. It's very hard to find the one today and then people can't understand why they don't serve food, or coffee! They question why they don't have karaoke or quiz nights! In my day it was darts, skittles, bull ring and pickled eggs in a bag of crisps(with a blue bag of salt inside) which was downed with copious jars of weak beer by today's standards! Many would drive after a night of such 'fun'. These pubs have just changed with the times as have the laws!

 Like the idea of the assist drivers mind!

The Scottish Government has made the right decision on the drink driving limits for our nation. 

It has alread changed the driving habits of many people by bringing awareness that with even one drink, a driver could be convicted and sentenced to a year's driving ban and a hefty fine. 

This can only reduce accidents and encourage people to adopt a Drinking OR Driving policy.

We will still be a nation of drinkers, so going to the pub or resturant wont be affected. It will just mean that we walk, take a taxi, or arrange a lift from a sober pal. 

Scotland leads the way on this, let's hope the other home nations follow suit. 

K  

Hi Folks, sorry for jumping in feet first to make my 1st post but this zero or not limit is interesting.

Many moons ago I was seconded to an outfit installing gear for making whisky mash into cattle feed at a distillery in Edinburgh.

My colleague advised re drinking a lot of tea at the job (as if!) Apparently the atmosphere was so loaded with alcohol it was absorbed through the skin and drinking a lot of fluids made it enter the blood stream quicker. Some occupational hazard!

We had to commute back to Glasgow in heavy traffic so behaved 

Anyway, good to be on the site here, better go and introduce myself!

I am just wondering if the Brewers/Licensed Vintners Association are thinking of investing in ‘Driverless Car Technology’.  I think this has the potential to lead to the revival of the 'Great British Pub'.  No doubt, although no one will actually be driving, someone will be charged with being ‘Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle’.    

The lack of Police patrols is very likely to be one cause of the reduction in offences recorded. The numbers of dedicated Motorway patrols are a fraction of what they once were, The civilian "Patrol Officers" in the Back & Yellow chequered vehicles are a wast of time & dont count!

The other problem for the Police is the fact that when you have  very few officers out on Patrol anyway, when one of them then carries out a positive breath test on someone and of course an arrest will then follow, thats a further reduction of officers available to deal with anything.

TF

Most, if not all of Europe has a 50/100 limit and it would make sense for the UK to fall in line.