Just drive around with a Masonic case on your passenger seat, you'll be fine

Regarding my comment about thick drivers and a reply about competency
uk car accident compilation 3
Type into a well known video website search and watch. As for the rest of the world..............

The technology exists to prevent these people ever getting into a vehicle, but again it's costly. It could be done but it won't so just accept that there are idiots, drunk or not that are out to kill, injure and maim you.

Accidents happen - to suggest drivers drunk or not are out to kill others is simply preposterous.

Only in your megalomaniac fantasies.

Whereas to suggest that very many absolutely do not give a flying sh[size.[/sizeit is not.

Equally preposterous - to suggest that a high % of drivers don't give a whether they kill somebody or not is - even for your warped sense of right and wrong - plain nuts.

Sorry but an "accident" in a car is when the sky falls on it, a la Chicken Licken.

Anything else, there's at least one party at fault.

That is not an "accident"

Can't disagree with that Coddy, the exception being some kind of failure with the car.

But realistically, people will always have odd lapses of concentration, and as with all aspects of life, people will make mistakes and bad decisions. It doesn't mean they don't care, nor does it mean they are bad drivers. But until cars drive themselves (not far away from being reality btw), there will always be human error.

One thing they could do is ban all black Audi's, at least then a shed load of s would need to buy a new car, and then we could take their licences off them, that would make the motorways safer

The real knobs are all driving white ones now

If you drink drive in ANY EU STATE you are banned from driving in ALL EU STATES, regardless of the level of alcohol allowed in your home state.

You know sometimes it is very hard to work out whether you are just on the wind up, semi-literate or plain dumb. Being charitable and assuming it's one of the latter two, then you just made up "a high % of drivers". The remark was (obviously) referring to "DRUNK DRIVERS".

No you aren't. A UK court can only ban you from land within its own jurisdiction.

However you wouldn't be able to hire a car abroad, as no hire company will hire to someone with a drink-drive conviction for up to 5 years from date of conviction, and certainly not within the disqualification period since you are not during that period the holder of a valid licence entitling you to drive.

If you use your own car, then unless someone else drove it out of the jurisdiction, you'd be driving whilst disqualified in the UK, for which you could go to jail.

If you drove abroad in your own car then you would not be driving whilst disqualified, as you are not disqualified in that country, but you WOULD be driving without a licence, and without insurance.

You may be thinking of the European Convention on Driving Disqualifications of 17 June 1998 which would have the effect of mutual bans, but doesn't, as it would need all states to sign it. Oddly, they CAN agree to mutually apply it voluntarily, but the only countries so far to have done so AFAIK are the UK and Ireland. So your ban WOULD mean you were also disqualified in the emerald isle, bejabers.

It was so much simpler back in 1971.

I copped a 12 month ban after being found with 86mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood (8 over the limit), following a stop for a faulty back light. Shortly after the ban I realised that I couldn't continue in my career and departed to work the summer season on Guernsey. While there I discovered that I could take a Guernsey driving test, so I got a provisional, booked a couple of lessons and then booked a test. I passed that and continued driving while I was there.

When I got back to the UK, I continued driving on my green Guernsey licence until my red UK licence was returned to me. I knew of others who got round the ban by driving on other countries' licences and even one bloke who continued driving on his International Licence, despite the fact that you also needed a domestic licence to validate the International one.

Impossible now with the PNC of course

I suspect the most noticeable impact in the next few weeks will be a large increase in "morning after" convictions. Best get a bus or taxi to work after a night out