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I guess he thought it was an Aston Martini

Sorry but in my eyes and in the eyes of the law, if you were drink driving then it's your fault... if he hadn't had that drink then regardless of who made the error, he may have been able to avoid it.

It's like driving under the limit but after one pint, you may have an accident that isn't your fault, but could you have used that millisecond in added reaction time to avoid it, could you live with yourself?!

So if you are minding your own business, crossing an intersection and a) someone T-bones you, as in, piles into your passenger door, or b) you are stopped at a stop sign and someone smashes into the back of your car, you are saying, you could have avoided it if you hadn't had that pint? Hmmmm... I must admit I hadn't thought of that. I must be missing something I suppose?

How will you ever know? How could you live with yourself if you thought that maybe, just maybe, you may have anticipated what happened next?

I appreciate there are those instances when you could literally have done nothing about it, but then again my view is that you shouldn't have been there in the first place if you'd had a drink.

I just don't think there's any excuse for drink driving. I'm not claiming to be whiter than white and there's surely been times when I've driven with a blood alcohol level of more than 0, but I don't condone it.

This is coming from someone who DID get T boned at a junction resulting in the death of my friend who was in the back, back in 2004, and I certainly know that if I had even the slightest drop of alcohol in my body at that time, I wouldn't be able to live with myself thinking 'what if'. Sorry for the rant, touchy subject.

Outwith the crash on the heswall road. DONT DRINK AND DRIVE.