Your will have noticed The Daily Post is backing the Two Drinks Max campaign launched by our sister APN paper the Herald on Sunday and backed by an array of celebrities and thousands of readers.
We don't lend our support lightly.
The Daily Post takes the issue of drinking and driving very
seriously, as you know.
Our monthly publishing of the names of local drink-drive offenders, a practice adopted by several other newspapers in the wake of its success here, has a dual purpose: to name and shame those caught boozed at the wheel, and to pose a huge deterrent to those ever in a position to consider driving drunk.
They won't slip quietly through the justice system.
Our stories about the horrors visited upon the victims of drink drivers should also help send the message that drinking and driving is dangerous, irresponsible, selfish, stupid (add adjectives ad infinitum ...).
But it's not enough is it? More needs to be done, and that's where you can help.
Sign up to the Two Drinks Max campaign and help show that regular Kiwis agree enough is enough.
Our news poll on this website shows more than 80 per cent of respondents subscribe to either zero tolerance or the Two Drinks Max philosophy.
While some may disagree with any limit over zero, you would have to agree that targeting problem drivers, who have ignored all advice until now, requires a fresh approach. This is it.
So sign up.
The more who get behind the campaign the wider the word will spread.
Ideally, it will get the Government to listen to calls to lower the legal blood alcohol limit to bring us in line with Australia and much of Europe.
Click here to find out how to sign up, and send us your thoughts on the campaign at editor@dailypost.co.nz .
