Campaigners want an alcolock on drink drivers cars but how about… (Credits: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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Crushing their cars instead…
An alcolock could easily be tampered with (Picture: ERIC LALMAND/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)
Campaigners want alcolocks fitted to the cars of repeat drink-drivers as figures reveal hundreds have been caught over the limit on four occasions (Metro, Mon).
These devices require the driver to pass a breath test before they can start the engine.
This may be one way of getting this selfish minority to act more responsibly but could not unscrupulous mechanics disconnect or bypass the devices? Or a sober passenger start the vehicle for a driver who is over the limit?
Then there is the issue of drivers unfit to drive through the misuse of drugs. Can the alcolock detect the presence of drugs?
A simpler solution might be to give magistrates the power to order the crushing of repeat offenders’ vehicles. Two or three strikes and you are out.
Some might say this is draconian and would unfairly penalise the offender’s family, but what about the friends and family of those who have been injured and killed by impaired drivers? Geoff, Solihull
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It’s still driving under the influence
An alcolock can’t detect cannabis (Credits: Getty Images)
Drink-driving is absolutely stupid but what about drug users? Nearly every day, cars pass me with the awful smell of weed wafting out of the driver’s window. Paul, Birmingham
Taking a leaf from the government’s book on poor hiring practices
Some MPs whinge about how little they are paid, hence their justification for taking donations.
I have an idea – how about we recruit MPs from abroad? There are lots of skilled politicians, especially from the former Soviet Union, who would be willing to come here and do the job for half the salary.
Our political class have been doing the same to us by encouraging mass migration from the EU and beyond to suppress pay rises. It’s about time we gave them a taste of their own medicine! Robert Kay, Leeds
We’ve closed our coal power plant… Now shouldn’t we boycott Chinese goods?
Ratcliffe-on-Soar is the UK’s last coal-fired power station (Credits: Getty Images)
The UK’s last coal-fired power plant – in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire – is closing (Metro, Tue). But China carries on burning a huge amount of coal to power its industry.
Some of that coal is Chinese and some imported. China’s increases in coal burning may undermine the …read more
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