Drink Driving

[Seppius]

If you still get on your motorbike after drinking, particularly at night, be very careful the police are having checks all over the city late into the night., unless you want to blow B20,000

 

Don't mean this to be a right or wrong issue on the subject, but with BOLT being so cheap, it seems a no-brainer to leave the bike at home

 

02:45 am last night Pratumnak/Threppaya stopping everything for alcohol

[bob smith]

5 minutes ago, Seppius said:

02:45 am last night Pratumnak/Threppaya stopping everything for alcohol

who the hell is out driving around drunk at 2:45am ? more fool them i say.

[scubascuba3]

Are they stopping cars too at that junction?

[Seppius]

8 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Are they stopping cars too at that junction?

According to my source yes

[Seppius]

25 minutes ago, bob smith said:

who the hell is out driving around drunk at 2:45am ? more fool them i say.

Well walking street and LK Metro are closing around 2/2:30, so I guess that's the target time, you see plenty of guys getting on their bikes in that area at that time

[worgeordie]

Just don't do it ..

regards worgeordie

[KannikaP]

48 minutes ago, Seppius said:

Don't mean this to be a right or wrong issue on the subject

So what IS the right/wrong issue please?

[MJCM]

I made it very clear to my BIL and his sons and other family members that if they ever get caught DUI don't phone us to ask for money to bail them out etc etc

 

And I proved that when my wife's SON got caught a couple of years ago on New Years Eve and had to spend the night in jail.

[ezzra]

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

who the hell is out driving around drunk at 2:45am ? more fool them i say.

You'd be surprised that many of the motorcycles accidents are because of drink driving and not at night time only... 

[ikke1959]

Where are you brains as you drink and drive and surely at night. It is not going together. Go out have fun, drink and rent a cab ... If you can't/want to rent a cab don't drink or do it at home... Unless you want to kill or be killed you can do what you want it is you life but I have brains and use them

[KhunLA]

Good, about time they started doing it after the bars closed.  Remember Udon Thani, some, most nights, and the wrapped up the operation at 2200 hrs. 

 

Licenses & vehicles should be confiscated for 1 year on conviction.  Caught 2nd time. lose license & vehicle, permanently.

[scubascuba3]

Drink driving is normal here for Thais, even my lawyer friend drink drives. Farangs should know better, but a lot of shady farang in Pattaya.

 

Early morning when I'm out cycling i have to look out for drunk drivers

[JayClay]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

Go out have fun, drink and rent a cab

While I agree that is the correct thing to do, it's still a bit of a lottery as to what your taxi driver may or may not have been consuming since they woke up until the time they pick you up.

[EVENKEEL]

I prefer to do my buzzed driving in the afternoon.

[jacko45k]

15 hours ago, Seppius said:

02:45 am last night Pratumnak/Threppaya stopping everything for alcohol

Good, far too many treat this matter lightly, be it foreign or Thai. 

[thailand49]

Beginning of month,  Nov also time to pay school fees for coming term. 

Good but enforcement needs to be 24/7

[Henryford]

Part of the reason i never drive at night. I think it is essential to live on a baht bus route so you can travel almost anywhere around town easily, for 10 baht. If you need to go off their route yes a Bolt taxi is the answer. People are crazy to risk their licences, and a 20k fine, and damage to their cars, just to drive to a local bar.

[EVENKEEL]

1 minute ago, Henryford said:

Part of the reason i never drive at night. I think it is essential to live on a baht bus route so you can travel almost anywhere around town easily, for 10 baht. If you need to go off their route yes a Bolt taxi is the answer. People are crazy to risk their licences, and a 20k fine, and damage to their cars, just to drive to a local bar.

Driving to the bar is easy, it's the trip home that's tricky.

[actonion]

Is that Farangs wanting to blow 20, 000,.?  because Thais  can't / won't pay that 

[Gsxrnz]

11 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Driving to the bar is easy, it's the trip home that's tricky.

Back in the day in Farangland, I once pushed my aging Vespa about 5 klm home to avoid a DUI charge.  Ironically, I was stopped twice by the coppers - they assumed I was nicking the Vespa.

[JayClay]

2 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Back in the day in Farangland, I once pushed my aging Vespa about 5 klm home to avoid a DUI charge.  Ironically, I was stopped twice by the coppers - they assumed I was nicking the Vespa.

Which part of Farangland? In England you could still be changed with DUI in that situation.

[4MyEgo]

14 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Good, about time they started doing it after the bars closed.  Remember Udon Thani, some, most nights, and the wrapped up the operation at 2200 hrs. 

 

Licenses & vehicles should be confiscated for 1 year on conviction.  Caught 2nd time. lose license & vehicle, permanently.

I heard first hand from a bloke that I know in Udon Thani that he was slightly over at about 10.15pm on a Saturday night, and was given two choices, i.e. pay 10k baht or so and go home, otherwise go to jail for the night, pay 20k fine and go to court the next day. He was driven to an ATM and paid and was let go.

 

Is this a deterrent or is it for their pockets I ask you, who is policing what ?

[jacko45k]

7 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Is this a deterrent or is it for their pockets I ask you, who is policing what ?

Well the 10,000 it cost him may well be a deterrent but too  small a one. I had heard that if one 'sticks it out' that the official fine from the court is less, but you suffer the discomfort of staying in the cells etc. Also you will be extorted there too..... in the station, and perhaps threatened with a trip to immigration to cancel your 'visa' after court... unless.... outstretched palm. Yes, it is about making money. 

[4MyEgo]

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well the 10,000 it cost him may well be a deterrent but too  small a one. I had heard that if one 'sticks it out' that the official fine from the court is less, but you suffer the discomfort of staying in the cells etc. Also you will be extorted there too..... in the station, and perhaps threatened with a trip to immigration to cancel your 'visa' after court... unless.... outstretched palm. Yes, it is about making money. 

I don't think the 10k baht is a deterrent as he and others still drive over the limit, agree it's about making money, and not saving lives at all.

 

Stick them in the think tank, that would be the deterrent I say.

[OneMoreFarang]

Somehow the police never stop me.

I don't even have to ask them if they know who my father is. ????

 

 

[Will B Good]

In general, apart from being a good, moral citizen, two aspects prevent people drinking and driving.......

 

1. The chance of being caught

2. The severity of the penalty 

 

These are inversely proportional to each other..........so the penalty needs to be very severe.

[Rimmer]

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[swm59nj]

If a person goes out drinking exclusively.  They should not be driving period. I don’t care what country they are in. 

[shackleton]

At that time of the morning after having alcohol the only bike you should be getting on is a taxi bike or in a taxi 

If you can afford the prices drinking in the bars at that time of  the morning  you can afford a taxi back to your hotel or accommodation 

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, Seppius said:

If you still get on your motorbike after drinking, particularly at night, be very careful the police are having checks all over the city late into the night., unless you want to blow B20,000

 

Don't mean this to be a right or wrong issue on the subject, but with BOLT being so cheap, it seems a no-brainer to leave the bike at home

 

02:45 am last night Pratumnak/Threppaya stopping everything for alcohol

Good.