donny
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Get this straight, the ability to drive is not the’ be all and end all’, yes your job may depend on it, your family may require it, but humans got on just fine without cars for thousands of years driving a car in the UK is NOT a human right never has, never will and never should be.
I am always totally gob smacked when someone is killed by a drunk driver and under the inevitable prison sentence you read something like ‘banned for 7 years’ What!? Is that it 7 years? How about life, you went and killed someone the least you could do is hand over your green card…why the government has not enforced this is beyond me…I can understand low prison sentences, the prisons are full, it costs the tax payer money and you criminalise someone for what could have been just a minute of madness.
If you drink and drive once lose your license, if you drink and drive again lose your license for good, if you drink and drive and kill or injure someone lose your license for good…driving in the UK is not a human right…we have buses!
Why is this not being done…if anyone has the ear of either Gordon Brown, David Cameron or Nick Clegg can they pass this on!!
Read on for my drink drive story: A friend of mine was going through a bad patch and started to up his recreational drug use is life started to spiral out of control all be it slowly. After drinking and arguing with his girlfriend he got in his car lost control an ploughed straight into a young couple. The man was killed instantly, his girlfriend crushed (now permanently disabled) He and his girlfriend in the car sustained minor injure.
The result a prison sentence of 3 years and a ban for 5. He was/is my friend and I know he was/is mortified and even now racked with guilt but really shouldn’t he have at least lost his license forever?
I am always totally gob smacked when someone is killed by a drunk driver and under the inevitable prison sentence you read something like ‘banned for 7 years’ What!? Is that it 7 years? How about life, you went and killed someone the least you could do is hand over your green card…why the government has not enforced this is beyond me…I can understand low prison sentences, the prisons are full, it costs the tax payer money and you criminalise someone for what could have been just a minute of madness.
If you drink and drive once lose your license, if you drink and drive again lose your license for good, if you drink and drive and kill or injure someone lose your license for good…driving in the UK is not a human right…we have buses!
Why is this not being done…if anyone has the ear of either Gordon Brown, David Cameron or Nick Clegg can they pass this on!!
Read on for my drink drive story: A friend of mine was going through a bad patch and started to up his recreational drug use is life started to spiral out of control all be it slowly. After drinking and arguing with his girlfriend he got in his car lost control an ploughed straight into a young couple. The man was killed instantly, his girlfriend crushed (now permanently disabled) He and his girlfriend in the car sustained minor injure.
The result a prison sentence of 3 years and a ban for 5. He was/is my friend and I know he was/is mortified and even now racked with guilt but really shouldn’t he have at least lost his license forever?