Drinking and driving: What can you do?

What can you do?

Given the scope of a problem which kills and injures so many people, a third of which are innocent victims, what can you do to help reduce the carnage?

Well, the first and perhaps most obvious thing you can do is avoid drinking and driving yourself. I say 'perhaps most obvious' because many people fall into the 'one little drink won't' hurt trap.

So what do I mean by avoid drinking? Even if you are sensible and take a taxi home, you could lose your licence the day after a 'good drink', perhaps during a lesson.

In addition to avoiding drink yourself, and advising others accordingly when you are socialising, you need to ensure that anyone who drives a car in which you are a passenger is fit drive - after all passengers are not immune to the antics of drunken drivers.

Should I call the police?

Reporting criminals, for that's what drink-drivers are, should be encouraged; it cannot be socially acceptable to drink and drive.

Drink drivers kill - you could be the next victim.

When Lancashire police set up a reward scheme through their crime-stoppers programme - 80 calls reporting drink-drivers led to 29 successful convictions and rewards within the first month.

This campaign may well have saved lives ...

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