Court sentenced man to jail for drunk driving
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced an Arab man to three months in jail and directed him to pay a fine of QR10,000 for driving in an inebriated condition.
According to Gulf Times, the local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported that the court has also sentenced another person, a friend of the motorist who was accompanying him, to two months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of QR3,000 for being intoxicated on a public road.
The two were arrested after they had a quarrel with a worker at a petrol station in the Al Zubarah area, where they had gone to refuel.
They allegedly insulted the worker and the matter was referred to the police.
While the worker later said he did not want to pursue the matter any further, the two men had to undergo an alcohol test as they appeared drunk. They tested positive and also admitted that they had consumed wine.
The court convicted both of them based on police and medical reports.
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@dohaplanner Thanks for sharing the state of a "drunk man".....
If you see the amount of fatalities caused by drunk drivers every year, those should be totally banned from driving whole life, they are a just a potential killers in the roads
I’m not talking about small cup of wine, but about that those drink till losing consciousness and fall out or take cars and kill others.
@Samun: Your point is so insignificant, the contest here is drunk-drive not the provocation. A drunk man gets provoked at a slight dispute
Even the worker might have played role in provoking them, believe me they do it and I can tell from my experience .
The license should be confiscated & kept by authority for a period, say a month, in addition to the big fine. This will reduce, if not stop, this bad practice signifficantly
better revoke some points in the license, since in some cases it can cause serious accidents to other motorist or worst, pedestrians.
Or he was "requested" not to
@britexpat I believe the worker must be having some better things to do in life.
If you got outside Raddison Blu, W, Sheraton and many other hotels around 2am, 95% of the people are leaving the clubs and bars and drink driving.
Why didn't the worker "pursue matters further?"
Why not to revoke points of Driver's driving license!