Don't drink & drive!(strong images)

Lenny

I saw this on another bulletion board, I felt horrible after I saw how someone driving home got hit by a drunk driver,
The efferts are terrible how her life was brought down to shatters. check the slideshow below,
don't click if you find pictures of accidents a turn off..
Poor girl

http://www.cjhow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/drunkdriverad.pps

Wook

thats shocking... indeed poor girl but also brave

Pimp Ninja

I really dont know what to say to this, after looking at the images. Although I wonder what the drunk driver thinks of all this now. It is good to see that 3 years after her accident she continues to live her life as best as she can.

I've always held with the policy of drink driving is for f***ing morons. If you can afford a pint, you can afford the bus home. If you can afford to spend the extra half hour in the pub, you can afford the extra time it's going to take you to get the bus.

If you want to drive your car somewhere do it sober. I wont even have one and then get into a car.

Same goes for driving while stoned/high/however you want to get intoxicated.

Gordon

Very strong images. I am amazed she survived. Poor woman that must be heartbreakingly difficult for her and her loved ones.

Panda

I saw this a while ago,
they're disturbing images to say the least.

I know it works, but it makes you wonder are anti-drink driving campaigns ever gonna draw the line on their shock tacitcs or will the images they choose to show us just going to get more and more graphic with each new installment.

oeNeo

Christ they are very disturbing. I feel so sorry for her.

El Marco

Originally posted by Panda
I saw this a while ago,
they're disturbing images to say the least.

I know it works, but it makes you wonder are anti-drink driving campaigns ever gonna draw the line on their shock tacitcs or will the images they choose to show us just going to get more and more graphic with each new installment.

Obviously they're not going far enough as there are still idiots who get in the car with a few pints on them with the potential to ruin someones life and their own. It's the only way to get some people to wake up.

elexes

according to garda reports the youth of today cannot be blamed for d&d they only have a small minority that do it . its mostly the older generation that cant change there ways

Lenny

To be honest, I know a lot of young drivers, and when I see them in the pub, they don't drink at all.
I'v only ever been in a car once, when we were all mad locked, my mate drove 'someones' (not robbed, borrowed) car up to the mountains and wrote the car off. serves us right we got a big shock too

po0k

Originally posted by elexes
according to garda reports the youth of today cannot be blamed for d&d they only have a small minority that do it . its mostly the older generation that cant change there ways

Senior Gardaí, white collar workers, the "pillars of our society".

"Ara tis yourself Jimmy, go on there, say no more"

10 minutes later Jimmy's upside down in the ditch, the airbag stopped him from snapping his spin and mashing his skull, but the primary school teacher coming home for the weekend is not so lucky.

Wankers.

Wook

Ghent a place where i am from in Belgium has an action for the last couple of years that is popular during x-mas and newyear.

Its called the 'responsible young drivers' they are a group of younger people who wait outside big venues and bring back the people with their own car when they are drunk and request this.
The R.Y.D are off course tested on driving skills and 'others'.

And we always have this 'BOB' thing ..that whoever drives doesnt drink..but doesnt pay for entrances and drinks either

still, all is not well and we still have traffic death caused by drinking but it's a good start.

Samba

I did a fair bit of drink driving on me ol moped and I still do it on the Rothar as I see the both of em in the same class, but when it comes to a car, it is so much responsibility that you simply cannot afford to drink drive.

I have seen some pretty horiffic drink driving accidents and I will never get in the car even with a pint on me.


I feel that it is the older generation that is stuck in their ways, My dad for instance.......is bloody awful for it, I am going to show him those images.

EL_Diablo

Originally posted by Wook
Ghent a place where i am from in Belgium has an action for the last couple of years that is popular during x-mas and newyear.

Its called the 'responsible young drivers' they are a group of younger people who wait outside big venues and bring back the people with their own car when they are drunk and request this.
The R.Y.D are off course tested on driving skills and 'others'.

There was something like that in a few places here, where you ring them, they come to the pub/club or where ever you are on a moped or bike, put it in the boot, drive you home, you pay them then they go back on their moped.
It was stopped because they were not insured to drive the cars.

ando

I'd say its mainly the older generation iswell that are the culprits.

Also, anyone notice the shear amount of cars outside dublin pubs on friday and saturday nights.....


BTW, them images are shocking

Wook

Originally posted by EL_Diablo
There was something like that in a few places here, where you ring them, they come to the pub/club or where ever you are on a moped or bike, put it in the boot, drive you home, you pay them then they go back on their moped.
It was stopped because they were not insured to drive the cars.

damn, sometimes this country is so weird...

seamus

Originally posted by Wook
damn, sometimes this country is so weird...

You'd be surprised how many worthwhile and otherwise feasible services are scuppered by insurance costs in this country :mad:

tinofapples

"Also, anyone notice the shear amount of cars outside dublin pubs on friday and saturday nights....."


It's not so much does anyone notice the amount of vehicles outside pubs at night , the funny thing is does anyone notice the amount of cars outside a pub anywhere in the country at night and then compare how many of them are still there at 7/8 in the morning !!

**** all , and it isn't because people are drinking minerals !!!

The law is a f**** joke

po0k

that's because it's enforced by the very people who break it.

Everyone's heard stories of the "old boys club" etc.
I know in the places around Galway if you know the right people being caught drunk behind the wheel only takes a phonecall to sort out.

The Reaper

aw **** dat will make anyone think twice> mY GOD!

tinofapples

The next logical question would be " Who are the "right" people around Galway ? "

Victor

How about making stickers of those images and putting them next to every car ignition and at the door of every pub.