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Subscribe to RSSThe best way to prevent someone from driving drunk is to make a plan for a sober designated driver, and make sure everyone agrees to it ahead of time. If you are faced with a situation where someone who’s impaired is trying to drive, here are some tips on how to stop them:
- Be as non-confrontational as possible.
- Suggest alternate ways of getting to their destination — a cab, a sober driver, public transportation.
- Remember that the person you are talking to is impaired — talk a bit more slowly and explain things more fully than if you were speaking to a sober person.
- Explain that you don’t want them to drive because you care and you don’t want them to hurt themselves or others.
- Suggest that they sleep over.
- Enlist a friend to help you or to act as moral support — it’s more difficult to say “no” to two (or three or four) people than one.
- If possible, get the person’s keys. It is far easier to persuade the potential driver when you hold this leverage.
- If all else fails, call law enforcement. It’s better to have a friend arrested than injured or killed.
Source: Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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so your daughter got into a car with a drunk driver. now you want to blame everyone else. you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you didnt know where your daughter was or why she didnt call you for a ride. quit blaming everyone else and start balming yourself.
Attention Members: The holidays are fast approaching and if someone needs a ride to wherever they're going, please contact me on Facebook or call (530) 275-6000 and leave me a message. My Facebook picture are two San Francisco Fire Department Apparatus with a San Francisco Police Department Car immediately behind the Fire Trucks. I am available to be a Designate Driver so I'm helping you and others not become an unfortunate statistic at the cost of a Drunk Driver! If you've had too much to drink, allow me to help you get to your destination SAFELY! I'm a professional driver by trade with over 37 years of driving and instructing basic and commercial driver training experience. The only thing I ask from you is for you to supply me a vehicle to drive you in. My personal vehicle insurance doesn't cover any riders. I'm in Redding, California. PLEASE DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE and let's have a Happy Christmas and Safe New Years!
Talking about drunk drivers...why didn't you mention the MADD moma was picked up for drunk driving a few years ago ? Why should the government collect / assess penalties to give this group monies on every fine ? She has somebody fooled and making big bucks doing it at taxpayers expense.
Another tactic that has worked for me in the past is, after the person has insisted they are not too drunk to drive ask them if they were pulled over would they pass a breath test. Amazingly, even though drunk, they had to admit they would not pass it.