Are you being deliberately dense, or do you genuinely not understand the concept of a concious decision?
You've just posted links to 3 stories:
Story 1; the driver needed glasses to see clearly more than a few metres in front of him, and he conciously chose to drive without them. that's NOT...
Well, I think I've already made the distinction that I feel more leniently towards CARELESS drivers, rather than people who make concious bad / dangerous choices. So given that in your example, the driver conciously chose to drive without a license or insurance, and conciously fled the scene of...
I think that would be the commonly held (and reasonable) view.
And like you, by 'careless driving' I'm refering to a the guy who makes a poor decision / changes lanes without properly checking, etc, rather than say somebody who is messing with their phone, or something - that for me IS in the...
Well, I don't like to talk for others, but I would imagine that, like most people, he is using the commonly accepted meaning of 'drink driving' to mean 'driving whilst over the legal limit'. I would not expect that he is refering to the hundreds of thousands of people who are sensible and...