A motorist with two previous convictions for drink-driving took officers from the Central Motorway Policing Group on a pursuit last night (6th March).
The pursuit started when Doxey-based traffic units indicated for the vehicle to stop on the M6.
After a short pursuit, the fleeing vehicle came to a stop on junction 14 of the motorway.
As officers tried to arrest the driver, he fought with them but was quickly subdued by the officers.
The male, who was two prior convictions for drink-driving, provided an upper reading of 205 when he was put on the Evidential Breathalyser Machine (EBM).
In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the alcohol limit for drivers is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath, meaning that the driver was over five times the legal limit.
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Someone blowing those numbers is way beyond being merely drunk. That level of alcohol would utterly incapacitate most people and probably kill a fair few, yet this person could not only drive the car but have a punch up afterwards.
Given the level of booze in his system and the fact it is a third offence, serious consideration should be given to permanently revoking his licence. He is a serious menace to other road users.
We do not know whether he was on a current ban when he was stopped. If he was, he should be jailed for the remainder of that ban plus any new one followed by permanent revocation of licence. As a matter of course, the minimum sentence should start at a year and double on each occasion thereafter. Drunk/drugged drivers should get a suspended sentence served by a ban within the community.
Drugged drivers, if consuming illegal drugs, the definition of which should be anything other than prescribed or over the counter correctly consumed, should face a minimum of 12 months inside for the illegal drugs in the system plus a 12 month ban upon release. Anybody with illegal drugs in their system should be locked up with the exception of a first cannabis offence, where a court hearing and formal warning would be the one and only chance.
If we are going to get serious about drugs, the users need to be chased down and locked up. Anybody caught dealing would have a starting sentence of at least twice that of a consumer, rapidly rising depending on quantity and type of drug. There would be a minimum but no maximum sentence of at least 1 year for a consumer and 2 years for a dealer, doubling on every subsequent conviction.
What would happen would be that a few City types as well as the usual street consumers would get locked up for quite a long time and that would send a very powerful message to society that we have had enough.
Very simply, trying to catch Mr Big is all well and good, but far better is to destroy his market from the bottom up. We will never eradicate drugs, any more than we will eradicate crime, but if we can reduce it by 80% over 5 years, that would be good enough.