Drink Driving Laws

[Endless]

So i've just watched this;

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/swerving-car-captured-on-dash-cam-ploughing-into-house-in-dudley-park/story-fnhocxo3-1227096666958

Now forgive me if i'm wrong, but after explaining that a drunk driver who has hit a house, then tried to flee the scene the message that they wack on the end is to 'slow down'

Is it just me.. Or what the FUCK is going on with the drink driving law penalties increasing, ever? Fines have increased for other shit recently, yet conveniently it's overlooked again and again? Year after year!!?!?! Just watch the video and look at this cuñt in action.

I can only gather that if it were at least matched to hoon laws in penalty ie : automatic loss of licence and vehicle, the amount of offenders caught would be so vast that it would clog up the legal system which is already pumping hard. Oh and then there's the fact that the public transport system can't cope as it is in Perth too perhaps.

Often do think the only thing that could bring change to laws, as grim as it sounds is a large single incident 10+ lives lost, or perhaps high profile? Even then would it ever change?

Cuñts can't drive for shit here as it is!

[n1ghth4wk]

Same story every time. Sadly it seems like it is stepping more and more into the wrong direction (look at over east) instead of redesigning shit roads, better driver training, mandatory defensive driving training etc

I saw a post the other day on FB over east of some bloke from europe pulled over for doing about 200 on a highway. Picture showed him pulled over in a VF clubby, highway is fucking 4 lanes wide per direction, and would be maybe 2 cars on the road? Would be cruising speed to him, not instafatality like they make it out to be.

[crabman]

That looked like a scene from Tokyo Drift, cops should nab the pingpingpingping of a driver under hoon laws as well.

[LostInTheWoods]

Having had a friend killed last week by a drink driver, the lack of penalty, concern and attention to drink/drug driving is appalling.
Not only that, but the driver refused a test at the scene, gave a breath sample at the hospital, but refused a drug/blood test. What right does a scumbag have to refuse a test when they have killed an innocent person.
He can drive the next day. Its fucking disgusting.
So now in court, there is no evidence that this guy was high as well. Ooh, so you get a year off driving if you refuse a test, because when you face 4 years jail for DUI manslaughter that makes such a difference.

Last week our police media posting about a guy doing a burnout - could have killed someone - not. Oh, by the way he was also over 0.08 - allegedly double. No care.

[SLY346]

The other night channel 9 ran a hoon story, drunk teenage girl losing control of a stock astra.
My dad who is in his 60s asked me 'what is a hoon? I always thought it was young guys in hotted up cars doing burnouts'
I honestly don't know anymore, I've seen drink drivers, stolen cars etc all bundled in as 'hoons'
Fuck mainstream media in this country, pingpingpingpings are so fucking out of touch with reality its not funny.

[mehow2g]

Not exactly sure why the law is the way it is however the people who create laws are probably smarter than most of us on these forums and general most laws especially road laws are intended to make money.

I don't believe for one second that the people who put in Speed cameras/limits believe they save lives.

Hoon Law's I don't think they truly believe targeting modded cars are a real danger compared to drink driving and driving shit boxes.

If they were serious about road safety they would be harsher on shit drivers, there would be a better driving education system in place, they would run campaign ad's like how to merge and not be a shit pingpingpingping if they wanted to fix traffic.

I'm fucking sick of looking at my speedo all my time driving my car because I don't want to go over 5km's...

It really is backwards over here.

I don't get it, it very much is backwards in Australia.