People do drive drunk, but they do so at a much lower rate than elsewhere, and they don't tend to do it twice.
If you kill someone, you're going to be on the hook for "causing death by dangerous driving", which can put you in prison for 14 years as well as incur an unlimited fine. Hell, being what is colloquially called "drunk in charge of a motor vehicle" has the potential for three months' porridge, and that doesn't actually involve driving the car!
https://www.keithmichaels.co.uk/convicted-driver-car-insurance/info/drink-driving-penalties/
But then we've also got a brutally difficult driving test and a lot of automated speed and red light enforcement.
It's instructive to watch "uk bad drivers" dashcam video on youtube, and compare it to, say, a "us bad drivers" video.
The former will have the average American driver going "but they're just driving? what're they honking at?" because it's all people in the wrong lane and/or minor infractions of roundabout etiquette (the bastards), and the American one is all massive smashes as people blaze through red lights.
The UK road accident and fatality is less than half that of the US, by pretty much any metric you care to choose (no, the amount Americans drive doesn't mitigate; y'all suck per vehicle-kilometre too). Most of Scandahoovia is much the same.
If you kill someone, you're going to be on the hook for "causing death by dangerous driving", which can put you in prison for 14 years as well as incur an unlimited fine. Hell, being what is colloquially called "drunk in charge of a motor vehicle" has the potential for three months' porridge, and that doesn't actually involve driving the car!
https://www.keithmichaels.co.uk/convicted-driver-car-insurance/info/drink-driving-penalties/
But then we've also got a brutally difficult driving test and a lot of automated speed and red light enforcement.
It's instructive to watch "uk bad drivers" dashcam video on youtube, and compare it to, say, a "us bad drivers" video.
The former will have the average American driver going "but they're just driving? what're they honking at?" because it's all people in the wrong lane and/or minor infractions of roundabout etiquette (the bastards), and the American one is all massive smashes as people blaze through red lights.
The UK road accident and fatality is less than half that of the US, by pretty much any metric you care to choose (no, the amount Americans drive doesn't mitigate; y'all suck per vehicle-kilometre too). Most of Scandahoovia is much the same.