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Well today I have been in an car accident. Minding my own business at the traffic lights and some muppet smacks on his breaks and skids into the back of me. As it happened he didn't in the end rear end me luckily and only clipped the side of the car. As it transpired the guy was absolutely plastered and could barely stand up.

Had to laugh, when the police interviewed him he claimed to have had 2 non alcoholic beers. After doing the breath test the policeman said that he would never get his licence back he was so far over the limit.

In the end I was very very lucky it wasn't worse as he was travelling at some speed and the accident could have been much worse! I have lost my car now for a while as I need new panels back and side and a new wheel. I presume that his insurance will cover everything (thankfully he was insured at least).

Glad your ok Bob..you will be fully payed out.....hope the dickhead gets a lenghthy ban.

he might get a bit of time inside for that

It was a bit weird actually. In the UK he definately would have been cuffed and put in the back of the cop car but here they just let him wander about aimlessly.

didn't you give him a cheeky whack before the old bill turned up?

He was a bit of a sorry old fella and he was doing well falling over of his own accord so I just left him to it!!

What happened to the other drunk driver(s)?

On the continent they're pretty slack on drink drivers...  For instance, in Germany a driver well over the limit can serve just a month ban, whereas if you are charged in this country the minimum is twelve months.  It's difficult to call - as long as no one is hurt there's little harm done!!  Just hope the insurance pays out and blokey learns his lesson!

I love how people get all high and mighty on the subject when a large proportion of drivers (especially male it has to be said) have at some point driven whilst over the limit, whether knowingly or unknowingly....

Thing is Walrus most of us have done things illegal or wrong.....the fact is you get judged when it goes tits up..thats life,a man may drive 100 times over the limit and never get caught...that dosnt mean the person who drives just once over the limit dosnt get punished if he gets caught....your post is shocking...as long as theres no harm done its ok?...and how does blokey learn his lesson?...and if the germans give 1 month bans to drink drivers they are more stupid,ignorant and arrogante than i know them to be anyway.

I don't think it's down to being high and mighty,Some people will feel different about drink driving to other's.My wife's mother was killed many years ago now by a drink driver,I think high and mighty is the wrong expression,even tho i know what you're trying to say.

Bob did this happen at bradley's corner by any chance ?

walrus used to fill us in on his drunken driving antics a few years ago.
i think he got banned eventually.

From driving or the forum!!

driving

Personally I think the 12 month minimum is correct. I don't think you can quite grasp the impact of the punishment if it's only a month or two, convicted driving crimes need harsh disqualifications in order to reinforce the law with the individual.

Theoretically driving like a twat/speeding and drink/drug driving can all be similar offences and pose a danger to others on the road, these breaches of the law should all be dealt with in a similar manner. The former offences aren't dealt with harshly enough and that's why so many people do it.

I have no idea where Bradley's corner is, but it was in Luxembourg. Apparently due to the level of alcohol in the guys blood the guy that drove into me will be banned for a minimum of 2 years. Had I or my passenger been injured he would have gone to prison. So the cops told me yesterday.

No...  that's not what I'm saying.  But obviously it is a far less serious crime if you don't hurt somebody.  By getting into a car over the limit you're increasing the likelihood of an accident, similar to if you carry a knife you are increasing the likelihood of you stabbing someone!  (If you get my drift)...

To be honest, when I was banned for drink driving some people viewed it as a more heinious crime than if I had mugged an old lady!  Yes, it's a serious crime, but it is not vindictive nor is it malicious - it is merely a mistake.  I learnt my lesson, but you don't need alcohol in your system to kill someone with a car.

I was hit on a roundabout by a drunk driver a few years back, car was a total write off and a dented a lamp post flying across the road.  Once I got out of the car I found the guy still sitting behind the wheel of his car and laughing.  To this day I still wish I'd thumped the twat.

Glad you're OK Bob.

Glad your OK Bob's Orange. My Mum was almost killed by a drunk driver before, hit her head on, car was completely fucked.

Years ago, minding my own business taking a left turn near Newbury , when an Austin Maxi goes pissing by making me put on the anchors.  Just round the corner is a narrow bridge with a car going over it in the same direction as the still high speed Maxi, who tries to overtake on the bridge.  After a screeching sound of metal on rock the two cars are wedged solid.  Suffice it to say the Old Bill led away the Maxi driver who looked as pissed as a fart.  After some time, the now narrower at the front Maxi was shoved off the road just before the bridge.  The car that was on the bridge first looked like it had it's last trip being now narrower at the back, with some poor old geezer shaken and totally pissed off.  Had I been thirty seconds earlier my "Dagenham Dustbin" would have been history.  I bet the drunken bastard wasn't even banned.

Drink driving was still legal in 1953 Crozzer

 ;)

It was more like 1983 than 1953, but they still made British cars then.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C99634/