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1. Improve Perth's public transport system at night 
Drink driving is a major public health concern as it contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality rates especially in young people. Injuries and fatalities caused by drink driving account for approximately 30% of all road accident fatalities and contributes a financial burden to the community of over 200 million dollars annually.
With few public transport options on Friday and Saturday night, we feel that the target population of 18 to 25 year olds often feel they have no other choice but to drive in situations where public transport is not available.
We propose that an increase in the number and frequency of trains and popular bus routes should be in place at night, particularly on Fridays and Saturdays between 12am and 4am.
These proposed changes are essential to reducing the prevalence of drink driving and the incidence of the subsequent accidents, injuries and fatalities and their enduring impact on the community.
Too many innocent people get injured or die every year, because of someone's stupid choice to get behind the wheel and drive whilst under the influence of alcohol.
It's time to put a STOP to this and save innocent lives.
On the 2nd October 2010, my friend Samantha died from injuries sustained from a DUI crash. My friend was 23 years old and had her whole live ahead of her. Her killer was more than two times over the legal driving limit. Her killer was also an illegal immigrant that had already been deported from our country. Samantha spent six days in critical care before she passed away and also went through hours of surgery.
I would like a change in the law for DUI cases. The punishment needs to fit the crime.
I would also like people charged with murder when they kill innocent people in DUI cases. Why should people be charged with Manslaughter when they make the conscious decision to drink and drive.
They say my friend's murderer may only get 15 years in prison. I believe these people should get life imprisonment.
At the end of the day, these cases are NOT an accident and should not be seen as one. A LIFE FOR A LIFE.
Drunk Driving kills over injures over 10,000 people a year, many of them later die. Most are killed instantly.
The specific criminal offense may be called, depending on the jurisdiction, driving under intense influence (DUII), driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while intoxicated (OWI), operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OMVI), driving under the influence [of alcohol or other drugs] (DUI), driving under the combined influence of alcohol and/or other drugs, driving under the influence per se or drunk in charge [of a vehicle].
Other less common acronyms include ("OVI"), "operating a vehicle (while) impaired," and ("DWAI"), "Driving While Ability Impaired." Many of such laws apply also to boating, piloting aircraft, riding a horse or conducting a horse-drawn vehicle, or cycling.
5. Safe and Civilised roads for New Zealand
We are resolved to remove hardcore impaired drivers from New Zealand’s roads. These individuals typically:
Drive with a high blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .15 or above (almost twice the legal New Zealand limit);
Do so repeatedly, as demonstrated by having more than one drunk driving arrest, and
Are highly resistant to changing their behaviour despite previous sanctions, treatment, or education efforts.
While hardcore offenders constitute a relatively small number of drivers, they account for a disproportionately large share of drunk driving problems. For example, it is estimated that while drivers with BACs in excess of .15 are only 1% of all drivers on weekend nights, they are involved in nearly 50% of all fatal crashes at that time.
Hardcore drunk drivers do not consume alcohol in moderation and they show no respect for the limits of the law. To reach a BAC of .15, a man weighing 80 kilos (176 pounds) would have to consume approximately seven drinks in one hour.
Research also has found that, compared to all drivers, hardcore offenders often are more aggressive, hostile, and thrill-seeking. Hardcore drunk drivers are also irresponsible, reckless, and abnormal in their drinking patterns and subsequent behaviour on the road. They tend to have much higher rates of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems, and are more likely to have a criminal record, to use drugs, and to have poor driving records. The New Zealand Police have recently commented on the increasing "casualness" of attitude of repeat offenders. In other words, they do not care.
The proposed changes are Cross Roads policy. Cross Roads is a Sensible Sentencing Trust initiative.
6. Tougher laws against drink driving in Mauritius
I decided to start this petition following the death of Elisabeth Pigeot, a beautiful and talented 16 years old girl who died following severe injuries due to a car accident. The driver as it is usually the case in car accidents was under the influence of alcohol.
The suffering and pain felt by her family and friends is overwhelming. I have myself lost a family member to a car accident and understand their suffering. I am sick and angry that so many people are losing their life because of the irresponsibility of others.
In memory of all the innocent people who have lost their lives please join me in this battle to make things change for the better.
Thank you.
7. No to Drink Driving Petition
This petition is to try and make the English government change their laws and make harsher punishments and jail sentences for people who drink and drive or drug drive and injure or kill an innocent person.
Whether your from the UK or not, PLEASE help bring justice to all the families who feel cheated because they have lost loved ones. If you had a friend or family member killed you'd want some sort of justice wouldn't you?
PLEASE sign this and get idiots who think it's clever to be drunk behind the wheel to stay sober behind bars.
8. Dangerous Drink Driving Behaviour
We the tenants on the Bland Street, Fairfield NSW are expressing our concern and a need for urgent action in relation to Mr Jury Anatoli living on the 18a Bland Street, Fairfield NSW due to his drink driving behaviour.
It is of our concern that Mr Anatoli is often driving while intoxicated and therefore is endangering himself and all other pedestrians and drives alike who may find themselves in the Bland Street, or Indeed any other area while Mr Anatoli is driving.
