On going debate of penalty to drunken driving….?
1. stronger non negotiable sentences
2. I personally think all of these things should be done but its likely to happen. Ordinary people like us get punished and have to suffer the consequences for our actions but
3. Do the crime, pay the time. They should have a lot stiffer sentences on DWI because it usually leads to Vehicular Manslaughter.
4. 1. There is a severe fine already in place. The costs for everything else involved in a DUI makes it a pretty expensive ordeal.
5. My brother has a traumatic brain injury at age 31 because of a drunk driver and will never work or have a normal life again. The guy had an extensive history of driving drunk and was on parole for the same thing when he injured my brother. I say lock em up and throw away the key.
6. None of these are solution for this. Put them behind the bar (jail) to push them out from the drinking Bar
7. The following are based on no injuries involved.
1st offense. $5,000.00 fine and mandatory rehab for 6 months.
2nd offense. Removal of license and 1 year in jail with mandatory rehab.
3rd offense. 10 years jail and mandatory rehab.
Involving injury or death…
1st offense. 5 years prison
2nd offense. LIFE in prison.
We need to crack down on these idiots that kill over 16 THOUSAND people a year.
Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and non-fatally injure someone every two minutes (NHTSA 2006).
Occurrence and Consequences
* During 2005, 16,885 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2006).
* In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among
* Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al. 2003).
* More than half of the 414 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 were riding with the drinking driver (NHTSA 2006).
* In 2005, 48 children age 14 years and younger who were killed as pedestrians or pedalcyclists were struck by impaired drivers (NHTSA 2006).
Cost
Each year, alcohol-related crashes in the
8. My vote goes to number 2 and 3, my twin was killed by a drunken driver a month after our 8 birthday, I have had to live with out him for 44 years and the pain gets no less as the years go by. Why should drunk drivers not be humiliated It may stop them from doing it and save lives.
9. 1.Severe fine is going to happen any way big time.
2. Driver license is going to be suspended any way until you finish with the fines and classes.
3. It is in public records anyway for 7 to 10 years for the first time driven drunk.
10. . About 15 or 20 years ago in
First offense should get a suspended license for at least 3 months during which time they get counseling they have to pay for themselves. Second offense should lose their license, get counseling and do a whole lot of community service. Anything after that should be jail time.
A car is a lethal weapon. You should no more be behind the wheel if you ‘ve been drinking than playing with a loaded revolver.
11. Alot of variables to this question.
First offense- license suspended up to 6 mths. with a fine and mandatory DWI informative classes.
Second offense- Longer suspension, stiffer fine, a lot of community service.
Third offense- jail time
If any one was hurt or worse, then humility would be a very small price to pay. The maximum a judge could hand down would be appropriate.
I would make you go to the hospital and visit the injured every day.
If it was fatal, I would make you attend the funeral.
12. None of the suggested penalties would work.
Drunk drivers know the consequences of their action.Any injury to a third party should be
treated as attempt to murder and a death should invite the charge of a premeditated
homicide.Sentences should be,in case of injury,life term and in the event of death,the maximum penalty viz.lethal injection.In addition
the offender’s entire property should be handed over to the victim or his/her family.
Unless the punishments are severe enough the
drunks will continue to have a field day to wreak
all the mayhem they are capable o
13. How about letting the cops just beat them with a night stick for a couple minutes.
Then sending them on their way on foot.
Throw their keys in the woods.