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rex-x

Deleted User wrote: »

This is just astounding. Who are all the crazy stupid people?

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/793540267294986244

A least 50% of the people I know regularly drink and drive and make no attempt to hide it.As a thing to do its just not taboo and really hasnt reduced much despite all the checkpoints and publicity

Four Phucs Ache

Can't believe that figure.

200 !!!

Thought figures like that existed in 1986 not 2016

Driving while drink taken doesnt even enter the furthest parts of my mind.

maximum12

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

Can't believe that figure.

200 !!!

Thought figures like that existed in 1986 not 2016

Driving while drink taken doesnt even enter the furthest parts of my mind.

On what basis are you shocked? Numbers are meaningless without context. If we don't know how many people were tested, then 200 is a meaningless number.

Autosport

If they were to have a checkpoint out my way they would get at least 20-30 drunk/ish drivers

LSVCP

Who still drinks drives in this day & age?!

Autosport

LSVCP wrote: »

Who still drinks drives in this day & age?!

Obviously lots of people

LSVCP

Sadly seems to be the way... I wish more people would wake up to the risks involved.
There should be a confidential line that you could report people that have been drink driving. a former neighbour of mine worked with a close friend. The close friend told me they were drink driving every Friday. And they would be drinking from lunchtime, driving to schools, then around housing estates.

hullaballoo

I'd say a good chunk of that 200 is people caught the morning after a night out. Unless you have a breathalyser at home, it's nearly impossible to tell whether you've still got alcohol on your breath and you might feel 100% fine and you might have to be somewhere etc.

The last time I was breathalysed was in Portugal and they asked had I drank the night before. This was at 4pm in the evening, so either they were idiots or they do catch people still drunk at 4pm the day after a big night.

LSVCP

LSVCP wrote: »

Who still drinks drives in this day & age?!

I know of one country pub in Galway that would be packed with cars until the early hours and come closing time, everyone gets in their car and drives home. They sell very few soft drinks and all the locals know to text the owner if they see a checkpoint on the nearby roads.

jive

maximum12 wrote: »

On what basis are you shocked? Numbers are meaningless without context. If we don't know how many people were tested, then 200 is a meaningless number.

Shockingly high...regardless of the amount tested.

LSVCP

Funnily enough, we run a checkpoint & speed van page for all provinces in ireland. This is one checkpoint notification we refuse to post.

Drink driving cost's lives, and if your going try avoid a checkpoint with drink on you, we don't want a part to play in that!

gctest50

need a bit of this :

ReefBreak

rex-x wrote: »

A least 50% of the people I know regularly drink and drive and make no attempt to hide it.As a thing to do its just not taboo and really hasnt reduced much despite all the checkpoints and publicity

Well, you must live in a different world to me, because for people I know I'd say it's about 5% (if even that), and VERY taboo.

whippet

i live rural enough and it is well accepted locally (of those who frequent the pub) that a 'couple' of pints is alright to drive home .... its just a state of mind and as most in the pub will do it; it becomes a herd like mentality.

If I lost my license I would loose my job .. so I am the opposite end of the scale .. if I do go out drinking I will make sure I don't have to drive anywhere the following day - just couldn't risk it.

ThisRegard

LSVCP wrote: »

Funnily enough, we run a checkpoint & speed van page for all provinces in ireland. This is one checkpoint notification we refuse to post.

Drink driving cost's lives, and if your going try avoid a checkpoint with drink on you, we don't want a part to play in that!

But do you give uninsured drivers a heads up?

Fred Swanson

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whippet

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I reckon I have been breathalyzed about 20 times.

A couple of times on a sunday morning between 9am and 10am and a good few times in the early hours of a sunday / saturday morning. The very odd time late evening.

I was probably a target as I played football every weekend and wouldn't be drinking but often would go out and have a few lads in the car with me on the way home .. or a full car heading to a match early on a sunday morning.

GBX

:eek:
https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/793775496257560576

Tigger

GBX wrote: »

:eek:
https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/793775496257560576

At 130mph I'm surprised he stopped

Cheensbo

No insurance and a good head start,

If its a quattro I'd take my chances tbh :P

flazio

Looks like one of the Insignias in the picture so should actually be able to keep up.

tossy

flazio wrote: »

Looks like one of the Insignias in the picture so should actually be able to keep up.

As long as there's no corners

Bigus

Tigger wrote: »

At 130mph I'm surprised he stopped

That brings me back many years , bring her out to the Nass road to she what she'll do top end .

ThisRegard

tossy wrote: »

As long as there's no corners

Wife has an Insignia SRi, the thing sticks to the road like a go-kart on bends and corners.

punisher5112

ThisRegard wrote: »

Wife has an Insignia SRi, the thing sticks to the road like a go-kart on bends and corners.

Big change to the vectra which was one of the worst handling cars I ever drove.

Cheensbo

Funny how perception differs, I drove a sig a few weeks ago - think it's Sri spec anyway - factory lowered with 18s, awful yoke -, it had both power on and lift off understeer, On continental tyres too so wasn't the rubber at fault..

Insignia vs a tt quattro on backroads? they wouldn't have a hope in hell of staying with the audi.

ThisRegard

punisher5112 wrote: »

Big change to the vectra which was one of the worst handling cars I ever drove.

We had one of those too, standard version, was even yucky inside.

Cheensbo wrote: »

Funny how perception differs, I drove a sig a few weeks ago - think it's Sri spec anyway - factory lowered with 18s, awful yoke -, it had both power on and lift off understeer, On continental tyres too so wasn't the rubber at fault..

Insignia vs a tt quattro on backroads? they wouldn't have a hope in hell of staying with the audi.

Might have been the thing behind the steering wheel.

Anyway, nobody claimed they're a match on back roads.

Cheensbo

ThisRegard wrote: »

Might have been the thing behind the steering wheel.

Anyway, nobody claimed they're a match on back roads.

Geez sorry did I strike a nerve? My post was not at all intended to upset.

But ill bite anyway, The thing behind the wheel does alright generally, he's no Ari Vatanen but knows the difference between a go kart and a container ship, the insignia being the latter.. in his opinion of course.

ThisRegard

Relax, I was taking the piss. But they don't handle poorly.

Special Circumstances

ThisRegard wrote: »

Wife has an Insignia SRi, the thing sticks to the road like a go-kart on bends and corners.

ThisRegard wrote: »

Anyway, nobody claimed they're a match on back roads.

Cheensbo wrote: »

the difference between a go kart and a container ship, the insignia being the latter.. in his opinion of course.

ThisRegard wrote: »

they don't handle poorly.

Can't tell if the Insignias are any good in the twisty bits but ThisRegard is well able to chicane around things, that's for sure!