Two Drinks Max: Personal cost much more than dollars and cents

Charles Anderson. Photo / Herald on Sunday

The Government believes New Zealand drivers aren't ready to moderate their drinking. We know they are. So take responsibility for keeping our roads safe by signing up: Two Drinks Max.

- Sign up at nzherald.co.nz here
- Sign up on Facebook here
- Use #2DrinksMax to show support on Twitter

As the chief executive of one of New Zealand's big insurance companies, Charles Anderson knows the cost of drink-driving in dollars and cents.

But the Sovereign boss has also learned from his own experience that drinking and driving - even at levels below the legal limits - carries a personal cost.

"In my early 20s I crashed my own car, having had too much too drink after a game of cricket," he says.

"Although I was not over the limit at that time, and no one else was involved, it was a huge shock - and a vital, albeit painful, long-term lesson."

He is pledging his support for the Two Drinks Max campaign.

"It is important simply because the cost in terms of lost and damaged lives, emotional trauma and in providing health and medical support for victims is entirely avoidable - we all pay for this one way or another."

joanne.carroll@hos.co.nz

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