Drunk Driver's dash cam...

[JohnC6]

Most people who are convicted of drink/driving aren't drunk so drunk/driving isn't an accurate description but on this occasion it is. A driver, in Bristol followed this driver to his home having alerted the police who arrested him and seized his dash cam footage . I saw two sets of red traffic lights he went through. The cyclist approaching the junction where he made a left turn was lucky.


Mon, September 20, 2021, 7:38 PM

A man in Bristol, England, was banned from driving and given a suspended jail sentence after his own dashcam showed him striking road signs and a parked car on August 12; his blood alcohol was more than three times the legal limit, police said.

Avon and Somerset police released the dashcam footage on September 20 and said the 56-year-old driver from Patchway, South Gloucestershire, pleaded guilty to driving while unfit through drink at Bristol Magistrates’ Court earlier that month.

Police said a member of the public saw the man’s car hit a signpost, called police, and followed the driver back to his home. Officers arrived at the driver’s home minutes later and arrested him.
“He was sentenced to a 12-week suspended prison sentence, disqualified from driving for 30 months, fined £576 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a victim surcharge of £128,” police said.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLJvJgt63E

 

[Box Brownie]

Looks like he got off relatively lightly considering the level of alcohol!

 

[the black fox]

One that nearly killed me a few years ago also 3 times over got similar . .head on but on a hill and he was airborne when he ploughed into me after hitting a stone wall on my side of the road . My Engine ended up in a ( luckily ) empty passenger seat

 

[woof woof]

That vid. My Gosh.

 

[andya700]

One quiet Sunday years ago, I was watching the Scottish Open golf on TV, when I heard this large BANG outside. My neighbour who was an alcoholic and had hit other cars in the road, had been down the club, got pi**ed as usual, come back and tried to park in the space which no longer existed. He was constantly reversing into my lovely little red Alfa GTV. He had trashed the front bumper, the bonnet was dented. I went out and confronted him and he told me that my car shouldn't have been parked there (outside my house on a public road), so I then proceeded to kick his car, every panel. He drove off, so I called the police. They were reluctant to do anything, until I said that I would take a sledgehammer to his car when he returned.
Around twenty minutes later the police arrived, just as he returned home again.
It turned out that he was four times over the limit. He got off with 6 points and a £500 fine.
The reason he got that pathetic result was that the police lied and he was charged with "stopped and drunk in charge", no mention of the criminal damage and the fact that I had to persuade the police to come out.