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Live register for drink driving

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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Along with those who drive with bald tyres and no insurance.


  • #3
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    No, to be fair, you get a driving ban which I think is punishment enough. Not to mention the insurance problems after that.

    Not sure what the re offending stats are on drink driving but I'd bet they are low.


  • #4
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I think the modern equivalent of putting people in stocks to be pelted with entrails and rotten fruit would create more difficulties than it would solve. That went out of style for good reason. DUI is already a serious criminal offence, and is punished accordingly. I'd file this under "We must do Something. This is Something. Therefore, we must do this!".


  • #5
    gctest50
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    /buys shares in company making D plates


  • #6
    grogi
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    honda boi wrote: »
    Listening to this on the radio at the minute.
    http://www.thejournal.ie/motorists-drink-driving-live-register-3042524-Oct2016/
    What you,s think?

    It has been proven multiple times that harsh punishment does not reduce the violation rate. It is only the inevitability of the punishment, even a milder one, that makes the difference.

    More testing on the spot and the rate will dramatically go down.


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  • #7
    Musketeer4
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Musketeer4


    So we can get a live viewable register for drink driving but not for sex offenders? I'd much prefer a public register for sex offenders. They have it in the USA and it is frightening to browse. Towns and cities are literally riddled with sex offenders.


  • #8
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Driving with D plates for 2 years after offence would be a proper punishment, public shaming to the max.


  • #9
    gctest50
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    grogi wrote: »
    .....................

    More testing on the spot and the rate will dramatically go down.


    D plates would work for that, wouldn't be waved through a checkpoint


  • #10
    grogi
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    Musketeer4 wrote: »
    So we can get a live viewable register for drink driving but not for sex offenders? I'd much prefer a public register for sex offenders. They have it in the USA and it is frightening to browse. Towns and cities are literally riddled with sex offenders.

    It is enough to pee in a wrong place when you're 19. Public exposure - you're on the list...


  • #11
    grogi
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    gctest50 wrote: »
    D plates would work for that, wouldn't be waved through a checkpoint

    I live in a densely populated area - yet I haven't seen a checkpoint...


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  • #12
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Doesn't make sense to me.
    Publicating list of people caught drink driving - what would it change?
    It could only make a difference if people would be ashamed of driving driving.

    And as drink driving is fully socially acceptable (here in the west at least) there's nothing the be ashamed about.


  • #13
    Advbrd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Advbrd


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Driving with D plates for 2 years after offence would be a proper punishment, public shaming to the max.

    Can you drive drunk with those plates?
    I meet a checkpoint about twice a year, waved through as car and documentation is in order. The only time I was stopped was to check for illicit diesel. I blew into the bag once after a minor road accident.
    D plated will only work if the guards follow up on it. They are currently turning a blind eye to the local drunk drivers who everyone knows.


  • #14
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Advbrd wrote: »
    Can you drive drunk with those plates?
    I meet a checkpoint about twice a year, waved through as car and documentation is in order. The only time I was stopped was to check for illicit diesel. I blew into the bag once after a minor road accident.
    D plated will only work if the guards follow up on it. They are currently turning a blind eye to the local drunk drivers who everyone knows.

    Yes and you will then have the attention of every single driver and member of the public who sees the car with the D plate.


  • #15
    Advbrd
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Yes and you will then have the attention of every single driver and member of the public who sees the car with the D plate.

    Yeah, but that is only if they are displayed. I can't foresee too many people displaying them. The point I am making is that if your documentation is in order, there is little chance of a checkpoint interacting with you. I am driving for thirty years and have only interacted with the guards or customs at a diesel dipping checkpoint and a minor accident. The drink drivers that we all know and love so much don't give a crap. They will most likely not display the plates.


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