When we consider the damage done with drinking and driving, usually we think only of the well-proven fact that alcohol and roads, if mixed, lead to unnecessary deaths.
But there are other sad effects of drunk driving. Let’s spell them out.
First and foremost, we need all the police resources we can get to combat crime in South Africa. Drinking and driving takes away those badly needed valuable resources and focuses them elsewhere; this, when they are badly needed to combat other crime, like robbery and the like.
Secondly, drunk driving cases also clog up our already overstretched justice system.
Last and definitely not least, the CSIR in 2009 estimated that alcohol-related related destruction of roads infrastructure and other vehicles cost R7.9 billion.
That’s huge! Imagine if most of those billions were used in constructive projects rather than trying to repair what has been broken.
It would make a difference.
The change begins with you.