Drinking whiilst driving

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>> "Fraggle" == Fraggle <[email hidden]> writes:

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You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the
moment, apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA.

AFAIK it's legal to drink and drive in the UK. It's just not legal to drive with a blood alcohol
level over a certain amount or to be "drunk" when driving.

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>>> "Fraggle" == Fraggle <[email hidden]> writes:

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You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the
moment, apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA.

AFAIK it's legal to drink and drive in the UK. It's just not legal to drive with a blood alcohol
level over a certain amount or to be "drunk" when driving.

Since people have been stopped and charged with something for eating a Kit Kat at the wheel I
suspect the same would apply to taking a stiff slug of whisky.

That said, in much of America you will see people eating burgers & fries and swilling coffee
while driving.

Don't McDo's now have a health warning on their coffee saying its hot after some stupid bugger
scalded his wedding tackle then sued them for serving hot coffee.

Mad -- thy are all mad.

T

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>>>>"Fraggle" == Fraggle <[email hidden]> writes:
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You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the
moment, apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA.

AFAIK it's legal to drink and drive in the UK. It's just not legal to drive with a blood alcohol
level over a certain amount or to be "drunk" when driving.

Since people have been stopped and charged with something for eating a Kit Kat at the wheel I
suspect the same would apply to taking a stiff slug of whisky.

Have they? Is there a law against eating and driving?

I suppose it could be considered under the banner of Driving without Due Care and attention but I
don' think there's a specific law.

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Fraggle said:

You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the moment,
apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA. Though with sterling logic, not legal to
be drunk and drive.

This link carries much of what they are saying on the BBC.

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I believe it's legal to drink while driving here as well. As long as you're not over the limit
you're not breaking any laws, but you probably could be done for not being in proper control.

Mind you, you'd be asking to get stopped if you were.
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Michael Calwell said:

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Since people have been stopped and charged with something for eating a Kit Kat at the wheel I
suspect the same would apply to taking a stiff slug of whisky.

Have they? Is there a law against eating and driving?

People have been stopped for a variety of such things, even down to drinking from a bottle of water
while stopped at the lights. Whichever law it is does /not/ apply to Plod though, as the ones round
here are frequently to be seen guzzling from big paper cups marked "Macdonalds" while tooling around
in their Poxhall Astras.

Crunts.

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Have they?

Yes -- there was some ballyhoo in the press a while back.

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Is there a law against eating and driving?

I do not know which law plod used. Possibly the same one they use when you have a mobile phone
clamped to your ear.

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I suppose it could be considered under the banner of Driving without Due Care and attention but I
don' think there's a specific law.

IANAL.

T

Michael Calwell said:

Have they? Is there a law against eating and driving?

Typical UK - there's a law against almost anything, or one that can be stretched to apply. As they
aren't used much, we've not yet felt the massed urge to drag Blunkett away in a tumbril. But when
Plod feels like it, almost anything can be used as a lever.

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>>>> "Fraggle" == Fraggle <[email hidden]> writes:

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You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the
moment, apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA.

AFAIK it's legal to drink and drive in the UK. It's just not legal to drive with a blood alcohol
level over a certain amount or to be "drunk" when driving.

Since people have been stopped and charged with something for eating a Kit Kat at the wheel I
suspect the same would apply to taking a stiff slug of whisky.

Any task you try to perform whilst driving could potentially be driving without due care and
attention, but that doesn't mean that ingesting food or liquid whilst driving necessarily
constitutes such.

Anyway, the point is that there's no specific offence (as far as I know) of drinking alcohol whilst
driving; in contrast to certain states of the US. In some states I think it's even an offence to
have alcohol in the car with you - you've got to transport it in the "trunk".

Dave Larrington said:

People have been stopped for a variety of such things, even down to drinking from a bottle of
water while stopped at the lights.

Although in the particular case that generated a lot of publicity, the definition of stopped seemed
to be a little elastic. Started to take a drink from a bottle while stopped at the lights may have
been a more accurate description, was my impression.

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Don't McDo's now have a health warning on their coffee saying its hot after some stupid bugger
scalded his wedding tackle then sued them for serving hot coffee.

I don't think Stella Liebeck had the sort of wedding tackle you're thinking of:
stellaawards.comstella.htmlOpen ↗

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Tony W said:

Don't McDo's now have a health warning on their coffee saying its hot after some stupid bugger
scalded his wedding tackle then sued them for serving hot coffee.

I don't think Stella Liebeck had the sort of wedding tackle you're thinking of:
stellaawards.comstella.htmlOpen ↗

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>>>> "Fraggle" == Fraggle <[email hidden]> writes:

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You think we in the UK have problems with motorists. BBC news is running a story at the
moment, apparently it is legal to drink and drive in Montana USA.

AFAIK it's legal to drink and drive in the UK. It's just not legal to drive with a blood alcohol
level over a certain amount or to be "drunk" when driving.

Since people have been stopped and charged with something for eating a Kit Kat at the wheel I
suspect the same would apply to taking a stiff slug of whisky.

That said, in much of America you will see people eating burgers & fries and swilling coffee
while driving.

Don't McDo's now have a health warning on their coffee saying its hot after some stupid bugger
scalded his wedding tackle then sued them for serving hot coffee.

Mad -- thy are all mad.

T

My favourite was a number of years ago in Phoenix Arizona where a woman with a carful of kids passed
us, she was knitting as she drove along.

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My favourite was a number of years ago in Phoenix Arizona where a woman with a carful of kids
passed us, she was knitting as she drove along.

I've seen a woman doing that on the M4, though she wasn't exactly driving along since the traffic
wasn't moving.
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Don't McDo's now have a health warning on their coffee saying its hot after some stupid bugger
scalded his wedding tackle then sued them for serving hot coffee.

It was a woman who was burnt badly enough to need skin grafts, and she wasn't driving (and the car
wasn't even moving at the time).

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