Drunk Driving

[Tresbn00]

I think that drunk driving is dumb.  Drinking, like drugs, gives the insecure a feeling of infallibility that extends into selfishness and lack of common sense.  It causes people to do things that they normally wouldn't do and has after effects that people don't take into consideration.  Alcohol/drugs are a poison that alters the brain...kills brain cells. People also forget the length of time that it takes for this poison to leave their system. Merely sleeping eight hours isn't enough to counter the effects that a night of binge drinking has caused. We have a relative that had twenty beers on a Saturday, slept eleven hours and was still legally drunk when she got into an accident the next day.

[darkxtsuna]

I really wish it was more stricter drunk drivers just keeps killing innocent drivers on the road.

[vickysue]

I am so against drunk driving. My younges son (18) nephew (19) and there 2  friends (17) were hit head on by a drunk. He was driving in excess of 100 miles anhour with no headlights on. All five were killed in that wreck. The children were not drinking just comming home from a concert. I am afried if the drunk hadlived i would be in jail today. It took me a long time to forgive him. I felt so sorry for his 6 kids as they had to grow up knowing what their father did. Then a while back i was plowed into by a drunk who had been partying all night then drove the next day. He had no injuries. But as for me i still have back problems. Was in serious therepy for 10 years. But what compunded the problem a drunk indian plowed into the rear end of my car and set me back about 6 months. She was not hurt either. But the front of her brand new toyota was taken out.  The cop was still writing tickets to her when he let me go. I belonged to MADD for a long time but there is no chapter here. Have seen the damage drunks do and not only to the victims of  the driveing but what it does to the families.

[acurtsinger2]

i dui is forgiveable..but multiple dui's is just not right.

[jiuchan]

I am super against drunk driving. I hate driving period at night especially on weekends and holidays because I don't wanna end up being near drunk drivers. I've seen some and I switch lanes right away. It's sometimes hard to see one. If you see one speeding, stay away. If you see one curving, stay away.

I just don't like driving period.

When I was in high school, I went to a house with my sister and her bf. And the bf was too and he was the one driving. And when we left, I'm like why is he drivng, he drank. And my sister said, he drive better when he's drunk. He doesn't drive like a maniac as opposed to when he's sober. and I'm like, that doesn't make sense! Of course this was when my sister didn't know what the heck she was doing. LOL. But now, she's all good.

My cousin's bf got his car total. He drove drunk and he fell asleep on the road. His car got totaled and thankfully he's safe. My cousin was the one that told us and she was calling him and idiot and stupid and stuff cause he shouldn't have been driving in the first place.

[mythociate]

Again, cops have no way to stop drivers from driving drunk.

However, cops ARE trained to 'know' drunkees when they see them and to get them off the road ASAP! They even pulled ME into the drunk-tank one night when they saw me walking through a convenience-store (and I don't even OWN a car!)

I guess there are 'more drunks out there than the cops can handle,' are there? ... I started to look it up, but then I thought, 'Who's ignorant enough to openly confess on a survey or report, "Yep, I was driving drunk-as-a-skunk x-number of times last week!" or "Yep, I saw a drunk-driver & just let `em get away ... & your taxes STILL pay me!"

[blondie71]

I have problems with the law on this subject. Let me tell you what happened.  My sister took me out to a Mexican restaurant for dinner and it happened to be my Birthday.  We had some margaritas while we where there (Mexican's make a better margarita than anybody) anyways we where in Springfield and she lived in Buffalo so we had a good hour or more drive after dinner and we pickup pizza for the kids we where not drunk.  The power steering in her car was out and she made a wide turn into her drive way an off duty officer approached her in her drive way after we where already out of the car heading for the door when he called to us and my sister went over there and asked her if she had been drinking and she admitted to have Margaritas in Springfield and the Restaurant that we were at.  So after thirty minutes he had to call an on duty officer to the house, he gets there and ask the same questions and that officer asked her to do the test they give you which I and two other people watched and she passed but they cuffed her and took her to the station and printed her and we went and got her out.  That officer took over 30 days to write up his report and he lied so bad it wasn't even funny said she was on the wrong side of the road nearly hitting mail boxes (there are no mail boxes on that side of the road) claimed she fell during the test they gave her at the house (didn't happen) they looked at her driving record nothing on it and that good for someone in there late 30's.  The judge gave here two year probation and she had to go and take the schooling because they took her license and that was required for her to get hers back.  Over all with the lawyer and fines she paid out over $1000 dollars.  Now my sister in law who is an alcoholic  drives drunk all the time has tickets rolled her van with her four children and got nothing. So yes there needs to me stricter laws but not on people who don't drink and have a clean record and police officers shouldn't lie to justify why he made the decision he made.

[equipanes]

I hate when people are still driving even they are drunk. I read so many story in the news papers that there are accident cause of driving and then they are drunk. they are lucky if they are still alive and how about if they're gonna die. So, the worn gonna happy because there's another food for them lol. Anyways it really not good to diving if drunk. If you wanna save your life  and if you wanna live longer then, Don't drive your car while  you're drunk.

[mythociate]

Now my sister in law who is an alcoholic  drives drunk all the time has tickets rolled her van with her four children and got nothing. So yes there needs to me stricter laws but not on people who don't drink and have a clean record and police officers shouldn't lie to justify why he made the decision he made.

This is why I think police should be more aggressive and have more-powerful equipment ... they ought to be able to stop your car & lift it off the road & pull you out & keep you in the drunk-tank until you're sober! Because 'having a car & the car-keys' does not require that 'you still have your license' ... just like the gun that Newtown Elementary shooter used didn't have to be 'licensed to him.'

[Timberlan127]

I totally agree that there is no excuse for drinking and driving. You make a conscious decision when you start drinking. If you know you are going to drink you either make arrangements to stay at that place until you are sober or have someone with you who is not drinking and will drive. There should be very stiff penalties for anyone who drinks and drives. I know of a couple of cases because the person knows town officials they get off every time. It's only a matter of time before they kill someone.

[blondie71]

I totally agree that there is no excuse for drinking and driving. You make a conscious decision when you start drinking. If you know you are going to drink you either make arrangements to stay at that place until you are sober or have someone with you who is not drinking and will drive. There should be very stiff penalties for anyone who drinks and drives. I know of a couple of cases because the person knows town officials they get off every time. It's only a matter of time before they kill someone.

Thats the way I feel about my sister in law she showed up here drunker than a skunk and she had all her children with her but this time she has 5 children she came to pick up here tax papers I offered for them to spend the night but she refused and the two older kids beged me to spend the night and she said no.  She ended up ditching her car almost home and my brother called me and said I should not have let her drive.  beside tying her down what did you want me to do you know your wife drinks and drives why did you send her(he doesn't have a license either) I don't see how it was my fault I am disabled and she is stronger than me.

[moonangel]

A freind of mine lost his licencse for a year he took that year quit drinking and quit smoking all of us round here are so happy that he made these changes it wasn't easy for him to do but here we are several many years later and he still don't drink or smoke

[countrygirl12]

I agree for the most part - I feel like in certain circumstances that there can be some forgiveness for first time offenses, but there's no reason for multiple offenses

Actually, I disagree.  The second funeral I recall attending, I was nine years old.  It was the funeral of my second cousin.  She was 16 years old.  She had her driver's license for 2 weeks.  She was heading to work after school one day, and was hit by a drunk driver and killed instantly.

The drunk driver was a man in his 40's who stopped off for a few beers at a bar after work before he headed home, thinking he wasn't too buzzed/tipsy to drive.  This was his first offense and he got a fine and 3 months in jail.

Hardly seems like a fair punishment for taking a life in my opinion.

He got 3 months in jail for killing a person while driving drunk?  Wow!

[zreeds]

I feel the laws are becoming stricter. my son was arrested for 2nd offense for drunk driving and I was so disappointed in him. I don't drink at all, I still am confused as why he would get behind the wheel. I am guessing he has to learn the hard way, I don't see what is so fun about getting drunk. he is immature, I hope and pray he will not do it again. but I agree with the comments above he has to pay for this crime.

[dancer139]

drinking and driving is not a good mix. I almost lost my dad to drinking and driving.  He never drank again after his wreck. but its a shame it took a bad  wreck to teach him that.  If I know I am going to have a drink whfen I go out,,,  I don't drive.  we always have a DD  when we go out.