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Lemonade isn't a substitute!
Once again the British Politically Correct nanny-specify lobby seems about to pounce by reducing the drink-driving restrain to 50 mg. This is yet another fatuous knee-jerk “Let’s accord. the image that we are responsible and doing something” beginning.
No, I do NOT favour driving while drunk, but at 80 mg by means of ml you are not “drunk” or even impaired. The preliminary part of the 80 mg limit was a great step, but to a greater degree would be a mg too far.
I know for an unconditional fact that if I drink one pint of beer I am in nay way more dangerous than if I drink nothing. Don’t prefer a petition for me how I know; I just do. I’ve been driving all over Europe for 40 years; and experience counts for something following all.
Yes, I do want to see road accidents reduced, only let’s see something REALISTIC and EFFECTIVE. Why are ut~ accidents caused? (apart from people way over the limit, unlicenced or driving unroadworthy cars and in like manner on)
arrogance and lack of imagination: “It can’t befall to me.”
impatience: overtaking dangerously to save 45 seconds in successi~ a two-mile journey
driving too fast in the wrong order of importance at the wrong time.
driving without consideration for others
not driving being of the kind which if every other driver was an idiot
failing to give yourself sufficiency of a margin for error
failing to understand statistics
The the ~ time two points are perhaps crucial. Drive on the priphrique in Paris and you’ll call on examples of both. Of course, the French are, in general, sparkling drivers and 99.9% of the time they can get gone with driving up someone’s boot, but statistics tell us that in that place is 0.01% of the time when this will NOT have existence OK.
What steps COULD be taken instead of clobbering the human being pinter?
Start with the apparent ONE MILLION people in Britain driving either unlicensed and/or in uninsured or unroadworthy cars.
Ban rich Daddy’s boys from driving to a great height-powered sports cars: nobody under 25 should be able to propel anything over 80 bhp for a start.
Where is the logic in manufacturing cars that can drive at three times the hasten limit? BAN THEM. BE LOGICAL.
Make the viewing of video of the eadish of accidents a compulsory part of the driving test so that the community came reeling out of the room white and vomiting at the sense of ~ of accident victims with their faces smashed up and/or their heads severed. This is the REALITY of accidents. Let’s GET REAL.
Prevent nation from driving for TOO LONG. Tiredness is a MAJOR factor in accidents, otherwise than that there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL over the hours that private motorists be able to drive. Modern technology could do something here.
Make the punishments beneficial to careless and/or dangerous driving SEVERE.
Make people AFRAID of causing one accident.
The truth is that a car is as dangerous like a gun and people should treat them as such. Sadly, etc. breeds contempt and people too often forget the basic principles.
Every time I prevail upon in my car I tell myself the following:
Drive with since much care as when you first drove so nervously and tenderly on your first trip with your new licence.
Every journey could exist your last. Just because the last n days have been agitate-free it doesn’t mean that today will. (statistics anew)
There could be an idiot around the next corner, so drift defensively. (there is always a percentage of idiots, so statistically you are CERTAIN to converge one now and again)
Going too fast in the wrong site and/or conditions isn’t worth the risk. (stats again)
You have no right to maim or kill anyone else by bad driving and causing “an accident”‘.
Be anxious – think of what a serious injury or even your king of terrors would mean to your family.
It’s no good centre of life “sorry” afterwards ……
Let’s hope the just discovered British government has a bit of commonsense about this.
PS The Police could grant their bit, too. A significant number of people are killed through policemen rushing about.
By Chris Snuggs
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A P.P.S. from the Editor. In incident, one of the best things that could be done is be the occasion of an
incentive for passing the Institute of Advanced Driving driving proof. I passed the test in 1966 and it has been the most good investment I have ever made.
Why doesn’t the UK Government bestow a free year’s road-tax for every person who passed the IAM example. All this proposed change in the drink/drive limit will perform is to put yet more British pubs out of business. G’rrr.
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