Drunk driver lucky to be alive

First prize for the stupidist comment of the week.

Quote: "First prize for the stupidist comment of the week"...................

Hmmmmm: Maybe not such a stupid comment champ................... There seems to be an inordinantly high representation of dunnydoors in these types of prangs!!!.......Certainly of late at any rate.

Maybe they are easier to steal (I don't pretend to know what % of these incidents involve stolen cars, but there are certainly "some")

Roachie I think its more a case of the Commodore being cheap to buy.
Hence so many young people on "P" plates being able to afford them, particularly the V8's

Gerhardp1,

I think we are all entitled to put in a harmless comment aimed at no-one at all, without being blatantly abused by you or anyone else. I don't think "stupidist" is even a word unless your a four year old. Maybe your comment is sounding like the "most stupid" comment for the week then. Think before you type because we are all on the forum to enjoy ourselves and not get into arguments with over opinionated people.

You are correct, it wasn't the stupidist, it was the most stupid.

But when you cast stones at people's spelling, it's wise to have your own shop in order or you look even sillier, or most silly if you like.

"unless your a four year old" should be "unless you're a four year old".

Now you have 2 gongs instead of one.

Be happy, and post your Commodore comments on the Ford forums, where you will be praised. :)

If you read closely, I don't believe I had a go at your spelling. I had a go at what appears to be a non-existing word used. Seems like your reading skills are as good as my spelling skills. You've got to love "tit-for-tat".
2 gongs each.

(Wouldn't catch me alive on a ford forum because I'm a Holden man) :-)

Unfortunately Des is right.

The driver will be back on the road before the passenger is out of hospital!!! (assuming the driver didn't get hurt too badly, of course).

The carnage continues and "we" (ie: the community at large) seem powerles to do anything about it. All the advertising campaigns and visits to schools by paraplegic blokes who've suffered from stupid past acts etc, pale into insignificance once the young driver/passenger has had a couple of baracardi breezers (or whatever those cruddy drinks are) and thinks the only thing they have to fear is cryptonite!!!!!

It's a bloody shame, cos it's the "others" (family of the deceased/mamed) who have to bear the REAL cost of these random acts of stupidity.

If the judges locked every crim up for eternity, soon there wouldn't be a need for judges and they'd be out of their high paying job.

Imagine that.

0.05 in SA and over is over. You don't have to be drunk to be a danger, just affected slightly and your judgement is impaired. Although I dare say he drives like that sober as well.

Patrolman Pat

.05. One more drink and he would've been close to double the limit! Granted he wasn't absolutely plastered, but all that probably meant is he didn't smash the car on the previous bend!

This reading is a standard developed for legal purposes. Someone with a .05 level may be significntly more cognitively impaired than someone else with double that level. A 23 year year old, inexperienced with driving and with alcohol, .087 is way too high.

A misconception with alcohol is that food will lower the blood level, not true. The only thing food does is helps stop you feeling so sick and possibly delays absorption of the alcohol slightly. The only thing that lowers alcohol level in the blood is time, about 1 standard drink per hour is what the body can metabolise and excrete.

Barnesy

Charlie,

Whilst it would appear superficially that cars are made of plastic and are more dangerous now, it is in fact, the opposite. Cars now have air bags, crumple zones, passenger cells etc. I have been to hundreds of MVA's over the past 10 years and generally the old Holdens/Kingswoods, Fords and the like will actually split in two on impact, with the front end of the car totally separating from the rest. Generally with lighter (plastic) cars these days, as well as the above, there is condiderably less 'mass' and therefore safer. Often the passenger compartment is relatively intact, in circumstances where one would expect otherwise.

This being said, of course there is nothing that will prevent serious injury or death of occupants in very high speed collisions with immovable objects such as trees etc... It has always happened, will always happen and as stated above is generally a variable mixture of alcohol, peer pressure, testosterone, drugs and inexperience.

I can tell you that there is much research going on regarding trauma (particularly traumatic brain injury) and hopefully this will benefit those unlucky enough to be the innocent (or other) victims of vehicle crashes.

Cheers,

Mark