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I knew a couple people who had DUI's and still drove. Both cases they weren't drunk, but caught after driving home 1. after dinner, where she had 2 glasses of wine 2. After watching a football game and having a couple beers.
Should they have done that? NO, absolutely not. But what are people supposed to do, quit their jobs?
To me their should be a difference between DUI and DWI in terms of penalty.
BTW, the fact they are continuing to drive does NOT mean they are driving while drinking.
My friends never drove under the influence again, but yes, they still drove to work and back and just hoped for the best in terms of not getting stopped.
I knew a couple people who had DUI's and still drove. Both cases they weren't drunk, but caught after driving home 1. after dinner, where she had 2 glasses of wine 2. After watching a football game and having a couple beers.
Should they have done that? NO, absolutely not. But what are people supposed to do, quit their jobs?
To me their should be a difference between DUI and DWI in terms of penalty.
BTW, the fact they are continuing to drive does NOT mean they are driving while drinking.
My friends never drove under the influence again, but yes, they still drove to work and back and just hoped for the best in terms of not getting stopped.
If your DL is suspended, SO is you car insurance policy. No insurance company is going to cover a unlicensed driver, which is exactly what a "suspended driver " is. Think about that before you argue on behalf of the suspended driver, who still drives around. YOU could be their next victim.
Perhaps there is a business waiting to be started up here...........Drive service for those who have been suspended for being drunk behind the wheel.
Oh wait........why would somebody who doesn't do the right thing, and gets caught doing it......... such as drink and drive, spend money to obey their court ordered sentence ? What was I thinking ?
How about the car that they used to break the law.............being seized? Would that help them not drive while suspended ? Maybe. If the car still has monthly payments to the bank or a loan company, well that's the breaks, buddy. Keep on paying, as you agreed to do on the contract, right ?
If you think that I am tough on this subject, you are right.
If the legal penalty is a suspended or revoked license, then I think you ride the bus for a while.
With that said, I do think penalties should vary depending on BAC, and the push to lower the limit from .10 to .08 is/was misguided.
If someone happens to blow .08 or .09 or even .10, it doesn't necessarily mean they were too impaired to avoid the accident. It might have happened anyway, that even stone cold sober reflexes wouldn't have been fast enough.
In the cases of the people I have known, who were seriously injured or killed in a drunk driving accident, the drunk driver was utterly sloshed, not mildly buzzed.
I'm not excusing buzzed driving, but like every other issue, there are shades of gray.
Right. I am a small woman. I have a glass and a half of wine with dinner at a nice restaurant, I will fail a .08 breathalyzer. I don't think the penalty for .08 should be identical to someone who blows 1.3.
Did you know that 50 TO 75 PERCENT OF CONVICTED DRUNK DRIVERS CONTINUE TO DRIVE ON A SUSPENDED LICENSE?
There's a guy down the road from us who has racked up 4 DUIs in the last four years in three different counties. The most recent was hitting a school bus in broad daylight. His license is revoked, yet he still manages to find someone who lets him use their car. He pulled a whopping 60 days in the slammer, total.
How about this......No alcohol in any driver's blood stream at any time ? Call a cab, use public transport, call a friend, sleep over, or don't drink except at home.
It can be done, but it will take a major shift in public attitude towards the problem, and it is a problem, right ?
Jim B.
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