Douglas Alexander MP

Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South

“CUT IT OUT” - MP DRIVES HOME FESTIVE WARNING

Local MP Douglas Alexander has joined local Fire and Rescue Crew in highlighting the dangers of drink driving this festive season.
 
And on a visit to Johnstone Fire Station the local politician came head on to the consequences of drink driving. He was shown the badly damaged car that local fire crews will be using to demonstrate to local youngsters the risk of mixing drinking and driving.
 
The car will be taken on tour of prominent local locations including: Houston Sq, Johnstone at 11:00am Tuesday 22nd Dec 09 and Renfrew Retail Park, Renfrew at 2.30pm Tuesday 22nd Dec 09 – to highlight the death and destruction that drink driving can leave in its wake.
 
Around one in nine deaths on Scotland’s roads involves drivers who are over the drink-driving limit.
 
MP Douglas said:
 
“Meeting and talking to the Fire and Rescue Crew brought home the human cost of drink driving.
 
“I thanked them – on behalf of our whole community for their tireless and difficult work, and applaud their efforts to warn people about the risks they are running.”
 
As Michael McDonnell, Director of Road Safety Scotland, points out:
 
“It doesn’t really matter whether a driver is just over the limit or well over it, the quantity of drink makes no difference – in the eyes of the law he or she is still a convicted drunk-driver and the consequences are exactly the same.
 
“And if caught driving over the limit the next morning, motorists also face the same consequences as if they had been caught the night before. The message is very simple this Christmas – don’t risk it.”