I recently laughed out loud at some drunk and drugged driver who killed herself by, well, being drunk and drugged and unable to control her car (here). Luckily for the innocents she could have maimed or killed, she only killed herself and her willing passenger first. Good riddance.
Just now I noticed that Professor David Nutt from the Independent Scientific Committee On Drugs recently proposed that all cars be fitted with a breathalyser and wired in such a way that they refuse to start if alcohol is detected.
This is a brilliant idea.
It does need to include a detection of drugs as well, since there are a lot of drug users who don’t drink. But, if it could reliably stop the huge number of innocent people maimed forever or killed each year by these vermin then it would be worth the inconvenience that normal car drivers might have to suffer in order to get their cars to start.
Nearly 10,000 people a year in the UK alone are the victims of the drunk and/or drugged vermin. Hey, didn’t we have a far more panicked outcry about pandemic-flu that ended up not actually hurting all that many at all? Yes we did. Yet 10,000 people a year, every year, are hurt by the epidemic of drink and/or drugged driving scum.
Of the 10,000 victims of these selfish drunk and/or drugged drivers, over 250 died last year, and over 1,200 were given life changing injuries. Now, I’m perfectly happy if it’s the drivers themselves, ideally with them being part of the death statistic rather than still being alive and able to cause further misery or be a drain on our National Health Service, but I feel so sorry for the innocent victims. People who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and were harmed by a selfish drunk/drugged driver unable to control the lethal machine they were ‘driving’.
So, as I say, if every time I get in a car and start it up I’m asked to do a breath test, I’m happy with that. It’s only the scum that drunk and/or drugged drive that will object.
The next thing we need to do is work out how to stop the tossers that are only using one hand to drive because the other is texting or holding their phone. Ah, yes, maybe actually enforcing the law might help!
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