{"id":10345,"date":"2012-09-07T00:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2012-09-07T00:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:50:27","slug":"scotlands-drink-drive-record-is-scratched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10345","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s Drink-Drive Record\u2026 Is Scratched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a bus, you wait for ages &#8211; then several come along all at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>This story from Scotland criticises Sheriff Robert McCreadie, who allowed 65-year old Wayne Barrett to keep his car &#8211; even though he admitted to two offences involving drink- and drug-driving. He was banned for two years. Barrett played the \u201cneed independence and have a sick wife\u201d card and won.<\/p>\n<p>McCreadie also banned charity worker, Daniel Peach, for two years when he should have banned him for a minimum of three, according to the law. Peach was double the current drink-drive limit, and already had a previous drink-drive conviction less than 10 years ago, which means a mandatory three year ban.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at <a title=\"Scotland to reduce drink drive limit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> that previous story about Scotland<\/a> wanting to drop the drink-drive limit, you wonder how the hell they will make it work with people like McCreadie calling the shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a bus, you wait for ages &#8211; then several come along all at the same time! This story from Scotland criticises Sheriff Robert McCreadie, who allowed 65-year old Wayne Barrett to keep his car &#8211; even though he admitted to two offences involving drink- and drug-driving. He was banned for two years. Barrett played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}