Taking responsibility
Do you have a serial drunk in your family?
Someone does. Although he has not been proven guilty, the man accused of causing injuries and damage in the west-end on Thursday afternoon does have a history of driving convictions. So much so, that he has been issued THREE lifetime driving bans.
Luckily, no one was seriously hurt or killed when a suspected drunk driver was pulled over and then took off, dragging a police officer before crashing into other vehicles.
So what was he - allegedly - doing behind the wheel again? Whose car was it and perhaps most important, to my mind, is who knew and did nothing about it?
People don’t generally live in a vacuum. They have family, friends, acquaintances and neighbours. People notice things that are going on. They hear stories and if a survey we reported on earlier this week on 680News is true, they tend to believe that gossip, too. So who saw something wrong or illegal or dangerous and simply turned away and did nothing to protect the rest of us?
If this man is continuing to drink and drive and hasn’t been scared off by repeatedly getting charged, going to court and having his license pulled - and pulled again - then he is ill and those who are ill require help. That means you and me. We don’t have to be invasive, nosy-parkers to take the responsibility seriously of helping to look after the well-being of our fellow men and women. And in this case, when someone’s illness makes them dangerous, there are a lot of lives at stake.