From Police Armagh Banbridge and Craigavon:

This is the result of drinking alcohol and driving..

At approximately 01:30 hours, Police officers from C section Armagh attended a report of a one vehicle road traffic collision which occurred within the vicinity of the Moy Road, Armagh.

A roadside preliminary breath test was carried out on the driver which they subsequently failed with a reading of 109. The legal limit being 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The driver was arrested for Driving with Excess Alcohol in Breath.

A day in court awaits.

by spectacle-ar_failure

26 comments

  2. “it’ll never happen to me, I’m a good driver”

    Mentality… Or they just don’t care 😞

  3. There will always be idiots in the world, we can educate some but there will always be completely stupid people out there, just because you are smart dont assume tohers are on your level, thw world is full of actually stupid idiots

  4. people are a slave to their impulses and have no self control, then also consider they are selfish and don’t care about anyone else.

  5. He’s lucky he’s getting a day in court and not a day in purgatory.

  7. The driver was lucky it was a one car accident. Imagine having killed someone and going off to prison.

  8. People are idiots. There’s very few things I hate but driving under the influence is one… I have nothing against weed smoking infact I think it should be legalised but not whilst driving – the amount of times a car has drove past stinking of weed it really pisses me off.
    For some reason NI is the worst place I’ve lived for people not using indicators or driving like goons throwing substances into the mix is even worse

  9. guy is lucky he’s making it to court, stupid people

  11. I’ve known a few. The only common thing is a disgusting level of selfishness.

    It wouldn’t even occur to them to think of a what if scenario. Their only concern is their own convenience.

  13. Hopefully he is permanently banned from ever driving before he kills an innocent human.

  15. You don’t make good decisions when you’re drunk?

  16. Because the legal consequences aren’t stringent enough.

  17. I just hear the old doe ad music when seeing the photo

  18. At least it was a one person crash. Pricks like this destroy families and communities.

  19. It’s selfish. If you drink and drive or use your phone while driving you are the scum of the earth. I have zero sympathy if people hurt or kill themselves while doing this. If they hurt or kill others and survive, they should literally be locked up for life.

    Why would someone think they are so much better and more important than everyone else by breaking the law like this.

  20. It’s bloody obvious why they risk it? How often do you get breathalysed randomly at the road side? The sickening thing is some heavy drinkers can appear to hold the road ok and as such the cops will never pull them just from driving behind. If someone runs out in front of them however they are dead.

    I believe in the south and in Australia they breathalyse a lot more but don’t know if that stops them even then

  21. I know people who seriously believe they drive better under the influence. I guess alcohol makes them believe they’ve got superpowers or something. They think nothing will happen to them, until it actually happens.

  23. “FROM THE BEER, TO THE KEYS, TO THE CAR, TO THE TREE!!!”

  24. Many people are just selfish idiotic bustards. They don’t even care about themselves.

  25. Changing profiles because I’m embarrassed of my actions and would rather not have it tied to my main account, but here’s how I ended up doing it.

    I’d always been against it but after spending some time with people who were the “sure have one, sit for a bit and you’ll be grand” type (going to point out these were professionals too), I did just that a couple times. We’d go for one, have a bit of craic for an hour, then drive home feeling like no harm was done. I live in the countryside so driving home was so convenient.

    I did this “just 1, 2 if you wait an hour” a handful of times while with this crowd. Blood alcohol was likely in the OK range and not illegal, but it was the idea that sometimes driving after having a drink could be ok that was harmful.

    So one night at a mates house, we’re all having a drink and meant to stay over. We stopped drinking around 1 am and at 4 am someone says they’re going to just drive home since we’ve stopped drinking a while ago, another agrees and says yea they’ll do the same so, me being stupid and having already got this stupid idea that drinking while driving can be OK, says alright, I’ll do the same.

    I drove home doing under 20 mph the whole way. When I woke up the next morning, I was beyond mortified. I’d stupidly decided I was OK to drive, but having woke up, I knew I 100% hadn’t been. My partner was livid that I drove home (rightly so, he wasn’t in agreement with driving after 1 drink). And that was the swift end of my “I’ll just have 1” phase. Since then, I won’t drive if I’ve had a drop. I learned my lesson. I’m not the type of person who can have 1 and be sensible, I need a blanket ban.

    I think as a culture, we need to talk about this idea that you can drink after 1 or 2. It opens up drink driving to justification (sure I’ve only had 1, yea I had 2 but I waited an hour, OK I’ve had 3 but it was with food and I drank a pint of water after etc.). The issue being drunk minds aren’t the best at rationalising and will justify driving when you really shouldn’t (yes I’m drunk but it’s round the corner, it’s 4am no one else is on the roads, we stopped drinking hours ago and had food). I’m not saying this accounts for all drink driving, but I’d say it contributes. Some people seem to drink after 1 drink no bother for years and are safe and sensible, but it isn’t for everyone.

    Just sharing my personal experience, if you are someone who usually pushes boundaries or takes chances, don’t fall for the whole “just 1” thing, it probably won’t work for you.

  26. What car did that used to be? I’d like it to be my sons first when he’s able to drive, seems safe af

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