Stop driving drunk with your kids in the car — via drivingdotca
On 10:00 am on a Sunday morning in late July, a Sarnia-area driver felt a pressing need to run out to the shops with her two kids in tow. “An employee noted the ‘strong’ smell of alcohol on the woman as she got out of her car and she was unsteady on her feet, seemed confused, and repeated herself,” according to
report. “The woman said she had to briefly leave and the staffer, concerned about her ability to drive, offered to have the children stay there.Article content But the offer was declined, so the employee called police. Officers found the vehicle nearby, going the wrong way on a one-way street. The driver pretended to give police multiple breath samples before finally failing, police said. The driver was arrested and taken to headquarters for testing, and the children were safely turned over to a family friend. That employee, that family friend, all had more consideration for those children than the person legally responsible for them.
Having kids is tiring and endless and thankless. A time when, perhaps, you might most want a drink or something to round off the rough edges of never-ending, is precisely the time you simply can’t. Getting behind the wheel while you’re impaired with children who cannot remove themselves from the situation is not an option. They have no agency; you are 100 per cent responsible for them.
Booze in particular can make people belligerent. Nobody likes to argue with a drunk. For the sake of the kids, somebody should start. It’s bad enough that adults allow other adults to get behind the wheel with a snootful, but kids have no choice. An officer I know says the most confounding thing they see at R.I.D.E. checks is when a driver is busted for blowing over, a sober passenger will say, “well, I’ll drive then.
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