Dangerous driving cases in Dongguan have doubled in the past three years. Don’t let the wine in your glass turn into tears.

“Don’t drive when you drink, don’t drink when you drive, a glass of wine for the driver, and a couple of tears for your loved ones.” After a popular movie was released early last year, this sentence became a familiar slogan. Since the Criminal Law Amendment (8) in May 2011 added the crime of dangerous driving, drunk driving has been punished for more than 8 years, but there are still reckless people under high pressure.

Does drinking overnight not count as alcohol? It'll be fine if nothing happens?

According to recent statistics from the Dongguan Third People’s Court, from 2017 to October 31, 2019, the Dongguan Third People’s Court accepted 177, 348, and 926 cases of dangerous driving crimes in the past three years. Multiple growth trend. Among them, the growth rate this year is particularly rapid. The number of cases in the first 10 months was 3.4 times that of the same period last year, accounting for 27.8% of the criminal cases in the hospital. This means that one in every four criminal cases involves the crime of dangerous driving.

The number of drunk driving has soared. Who is "testing the law"? After an in-depth investigation by the Dongguan No. 3 Court, it was found that 95% of the defendants in such cases are male, most of whom are young people born in the 1980s and 1990s, most of whom have non-local household registration, and the crimes are most concentrated at night. Moreover, the vast majority of people did not have any traffic accidents and were caught by the traffic police simply driving on the road. This sounded the alarm for many people with the mentality of "if nothing happens, it will be fine".

In addition, Liu Shiwen, judge of the Criminal Tribunal of the Third People's Court of Dongguan City, believes that weak legal awareness and a sense of luck are the main reasons for the surge in dangerous driving crimes.

She once tried a ridiculous case: a woman got herself drunk because of a conflict with her husband, and then drove without a license to the Tangxia Traffic Police Brigade less than one kilometer away from her home to surrender. Surrender yourself. This woman was angry about drunk driving, and of course she did not escape legal punishment in the end. She was sentenced by the court to three months' detention, suspended for three months, and fined 12,000 yuan.

“Many defendants drove away after drinking with their relatives and friends. Although they knew clearly that they could not drive after drinking, they thought they were ‘better than the alcohol’ or thought that the road was not far and they could take a shortcut. Evading law enforcement." Liu Shiwen said that taking risks and trying the law often results in a heavy price for oneself.

Wouldn’t everything be fine if you drank some wine and took a nap? Many people have this idea, but in fact, the blood alcohol concentration is still not low for a short period of time after excessive drinking, and the phenomenon of "overnight drinking" drunk driving also occurs from time to time.

For example, the defendant Chen was caught drunk driving by the traffic police in Tangxia Town, Dongguan City at 9 a.m. She said that she drank too much the night before and thought that she would be fine after a sleep. Thinking that his alcohol concentration was still over the limit, he was later sentenced by the court to two months' detention for dangerous driving, suspended for two months, and fined 7,000 yuan.

Since last year, the traffic police’s investigation and prosecution efforts have been the highest in history.

Since last year, the traffic police have continued to carry out special operations such as weekend drunk driving rectification and all-weather traffic safety hazard rectification. The number of drunk driving cases investigated and dealt with increased by nearly 50% year-on-year. , drunk driving cases increased by more than 120% year-on-year, and the intensity of investigation and punishment was the highest in history, which caught many "veteran drivers" off guard. In response to the repeated bans on drunk driving, the Dongguan Third Court also gave suggestions:

First of all, publicity and education should be strengthened to enhance safe driving awareness. Major hotels, KTVs, bars, etc. are all places where drunk driving is prone to occur. Targeted publicity should be carried out by hanging banners, setting up signboards, and posting posters in eye-catching places to provide warm reminders; and widely publicize the consequences of drunk driving. Harmful, it has the effect of educating a group of people and deterring them, and cultivates the concept of "don't drive when drinking, and don't drink when driving" into a social behavioral norm.

Secondly, we must increase law enforcement and maintain a tough-on-high-pressure stance. Adhere to the normalization and institutionalization of investigation and punishment of drunk driving and drunk driving, adhere to the combination of daily inspections and centralized rectification, expand the time and scope of investigation and punishment, and use strong investigation and punishment efforts to encourage drivers to abandon the mentality of taking chances, consciously restrain drunk driving and drunk driving behaviors, and start from the source To prevent and reduce the occurrence of drunk driving and drunk driving cases to the greatest extent.

Finally, we must promote legal driving services and standardize and guide the development of the industry. The government should take more active measures to promote the standardization of the driving industry, strictly crack down on "black driving", promote legal, safe and civilized driving, ensure the safety of car owners, and maintain the orderly operation of the driving industry.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.