05% law may be unconstitutional
- Thread starter damngrumpy
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Stiffer penalties for real drunk drivers would be better. Instead they institute a law that is akin to the long gun registry, while hardcore drunk drivers get light sentences.
Simple solution really. You should be allowed to drive impaired but you can't drive over 40 kph, you can't drive on a numbered highway (or cities could have "no drunk" routes on major thoroughfares), and you must have a flashing green light on your car to identify yourself as impaired. The biggest threat to drunk drivers is that they try so hard not to appear drunk. They get on a highway and drive 100 so the "fit in".
I know it sounds stupid but if the goal is actually to make our roads safer, this would do more than the current laws.
I know it sounds stupid but if the goal is actually to make our roads safer, this would do more than the current laws.
A flashing green light on a vehicle already means First Responder or VFD member on their way to an emergency.
Why bother when traffic is already a NASCAR event. NASCAR with impaired people makes it more fun.
To hell with .05-.08 and lawyer fodder. When are they going to do something serious about unlicenced bulletproof drunks who keep getting behind the steering wheels of their uninsured vehicles?
Yeah, 40 kmh would be really bright, the drunks and some sober people would be rear ending you while others get killed trying to pass you while unsafe.
It's a real treat having to raise somebody else's kids after they are orphaned. Give it a try sometime.
Probably not for long. They quit it here in Alberta because it means nothing in the highway traffic act and 95% of the population didn't know what it represents anyway.
Then letting seniors drive is not too bright either....driving along at 30 with their left hand turn signal on for 20 kilometres.
And the only reason this happens is due to drinking and driving.
I understand your point.
Actually seniors are the safest demographic. My insurance rates dropped considerably after reaching 65!
I think that in most places, it's not recognized in any official way, and the volunteers are liable if they get in an accident.
Heck, around here, ambulances need permission from the dispatcher to break the speed limit, and in NS, they aren't allowed to go through red lights.
Give us the statistics on how many kids were orphaned by drunk drivers, as compared to by all other causes, including illness.