Despite numerous prohibitions, warnings, and requirements of the authorities related to the rules of the road, drivers continue to violate them. According to statistics, driving while intoxicated takes the leading position in the list of offenses.
Obtaining an Identity Card
Before you drive, you must pass a series of tests and a package of documents confirming the ability to drive a vehicle. I must say that this process is not easy. A candidate for a car enthusiast must take a training course in a specialized school. They tell and show how to park, how to get started and how to behave on the road while driving. The next step is the passage of a medical examination. In the clinic, doctors examine the applicant for a driver's license, check reflexes, eyesight, the fact of being registered with a psychiatrist and a narcologist. Having collected a package of documents, a person who wants to become a full-fledged motorist is sent to the registration and examination department (in other words, MREO) and passes there on the right. The exam consists of two parts - a test and a practical lesson (driving to the city driving a car). Check-out is only granted if the test is successful. According to the results of the exam, the candidate is presented with such a coveted document. Given the punishment for drunk driving provided by law, it would be foolish to say goodbye to a driver’s license, putting so much effort into getting it.
The degree of intoxication
As you know, there are three stages of alcohol intoxication: mild, moderate and strong. They are distinguished by the amount of pure alcohol (ethanol) contained in the blood. This amount is measured in ppm - thousandths (indicated by the sign "‰"). Intoxication is considered light if the ethanol in the body contains from 0.5 ‰ to 1.5 ‰, medium - in cases where blood alcohol is up to 2.5 ‰, strong - more than 3 ‰. Everything above is deadly to life. When checking the driver of any vehicle for driving while intoxicated, examine the vapors of the exhaled air, and, if necessary, the blood. Surely everyone remembers the famous phrase "Breathe!", Which was once pronounced by the traffic police. Indeed, alcohol is processed in the body, turning into acetaldehyde and water. Acetaldehyde is a toxic substance with a characteristic odor, so a person who has recently consumed alcohol can easily be calculated, since it emits a sharp smell of acetaldehyde.
Drunk driving
Never drive while intoxicated! This text must be regularly repeated on radio and television, set up many billboards with such an appeal, conduct classes with drivers on this topic. For drunk driving, a fine is a rather mild punishment, as the life and health of people often depends on the driving culture. An adequate response to such a violation should be a ban on driving any vehicles for several years. And in extreme cases - life deprivation of rights with confiscation of the car. Drinking and driving may seem like some kind of entertainment, especially for young drivers who have little experience. The guys warmed up by alcohol, wanting to get a dose of adrenaline, amuse themselves with pride or paint in front of individuals of the opposite sex, press the gas pedal all the way. Most often, after such maneuvers, dents appear on the bumper and broken glass of headlights on the asphalt. Worse, if the unfortunate driver lost control and flew off the road into a ditch or rammed an oncoming car. In this case, the chances of survival tend to zero.
Administrative responsibility
For drunk driving, an article of the administrative code provides for a fine in the form of a fine - the amount of money that the offender pays in state revenue. If the violation repeats within one year, the driver is deprived of the right to drive the vehicle for one year. Pretty soft punishment for drunk driving, is not it? Especially when you consider that everyone who drives while drunk is a potential criminal. So says society. And it’s good if such a driver doesn’t harm anyone but himself by his actions.
Criminal liability
If as a result of a traffic accident there are victims who have been injured, injured, or killed, then the perpetrator will not be held administratively, but criminally liable. What is the state’s punishment for drunk driving? How will the culprit respond to the law? The Criminal Code provides for a number of penalties for drunk driving - a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment for several years. Naturally, such driving must have severe socially dangerous consequences in order to be qualified under a criminal article. The end point in the case is only the court. It is in the court that it decides what punishment for drunk driving, entailing serious consequences, should be applied to the offender.
Sad consequences
Let's look at the statistics again. On average, 2-3 accidents are recorded per day in a city with a population of 300 thousand people. Of these, 1-2 with injured persons (with the prospect of developing into a criminal case). According to statistics, a drunk driver is to blame for one of these accidents. Slow reaction, weak muscle tone, decreased visual acuity, frivolity lead to the fact that the driver does not have time to react to a rapid change in road conditions and allows a collision with an obstacle, another car, can not cope with driving and drives off the road. It’s good if the culprit of the accident will suffer. And in the case of the death of innocent people, how do you command him to look in the eyes of his relatives? Well, what punishment for drunk driving will help to return a loved one? Numerous state programs, explanatory work with drivers, thorough checks aimed at identifying people who drive while intoxicated, so far, unfortunately, do not give a positive result. The drunk continue to drive without thinking about the consequences.
Conclusion
Having done the hard way of driving training, having successfully passed the exam and obtained a driver’s license, it would be foolish to just say goodbye to them because of a daring trick, like driving while intoxicated. By giving a person the right to drive a vehicle, the state requires, in return, compliance with a number of rules. For failure to comply with them, liability shall be prescribed by law. What punishment for drunk driving will be incurred by the offender, depends on the act committed. It can be both a fine and imprisonment.