XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, van.general   
   XPost: vic.general   
   From: beaver@stew.tasty   
      
   On 1/19/2012 8:38 AM, Dave Smith wrote:   
   > On 19/01/2012 4:36 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Lowering the BAC limit for legal sanction appears to have had   
   >> no good effect on driving, and in fact may contribute to the   
   >> recent spike in lethal impaired rates because there's no perceived   
   >> value to limiting intake since the same legal sanctions apply   
   >> to a glass of wine as to a forty-pounder of JD. That's what   
   >> zero-tolerance begets: intemperance.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > I am certainly not advocating drinking and driving, but the MADD agenda   
   > is a witch hunt and alcohol is IMO automatically assumed to be the   
   > trouble when there are a lot of other issues that need to be addressed.   
   > Alcohol is a factor is about 25% of fatal crashes. That leaves the other   
   > 75% of fatal accidents.   
   >   
   > Age is factor that we need to examine. I worked for a short time as a   
   > driver examiner in the days when drivers over 80 had to have annual road   
   > tests. We reserved Wednesday mornings for senior road tests and I   
   > quickly learned to dread Wednesday mornings. Most of those drivers were   
   > worse than the new drivers. They couldn`t see, didn`t look, couldn`t   
   > merger. They were horrible drivers. Now we have people yakking on cell   
   > phones and texting.   
   >   
   > I think that if we are going to crack down on impairment by alcohol,   
   > then we should crack down on all other forms of impairment.   
      
   All you have to do is know how to invalidate the evidence.  Take Cpl.   
   Monty Robinson (the Vancouver airport taser guy) for example, hits and   
   kills a motorcyclist then trots off to have a couple of shots of vodka   
   before returning to the scene.  Police can prove legal impairment by   
   taking his BAC, but now they can't prove when the impairment took place   
   (before or after the accident).  Case gets thrown out by the crown as   
   unconvictable...   
      
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