Drunk driver passed out at wheel

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A Pinetown driver has become an overnight internet sensation after a video clip showed him apparently passed out behind the wheel, a beer in his hand, at a busy intersection.

Wesley Adams was driving in Pinetown on Monday afternoon when he saw the man, who had fallen asleep, stopped at traffic lights.

Adams said on Tuesday that he flagged down a police vehicle and asked the driver, who identified himself as an officer, but who was dressed in civilian clothing, for assistance.

They drove to the scene together.

“The driver had passed out.”

“He had a can of beer in his hand. There was a bottle of beer in the passenger seat and his cellphone,” said Adams.

The incident came just a few weeks after transport minister Ben Martins said in Durban his department was considering changes to the law to make the blood-alcohol limit for driving zero.

Martins said authorities had no choice but to take an extremely tough line after the road death toll from December 1 to January 8 was recorded at 1465 and the biggest killers were drunk drivers.

Adams said he told the policeman to help the man out of the car and detain him.

“The engine was still running, so I tried to remove the keys, but I struggled because I am not familiar with automatic cars,” he said.

Motorists looked on as an argument ensued when he began shouting at the policeman to act.

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“The policeman had no idea what to do. I dialled 10111 on my phone and gave it to him,” said Adams.

As the policeman spoke on Adams’s phone with 10111 officials, the car, an Audi, “started rolling towards oncoming traffic”.

“I quickly jumped through the passenger window and pulled up the handbrake. The driver woke up. I shouted at the cop to pull him out and immobilise him, but the driver drove off, leaving the cop bewildered,” Adams said. “There was no car chase, no interest in pursuit by the policeman.”

He said another police car drove by as they “frantically tried to wave them d
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[video=youtube;-XJCLlX1BQA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-XJCLlX1BQA[/video]

http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/special-features/cop-out-over-driver-stopped-at-lights-1.1464837#.URH9hncWbRA
 
At least he passed out / stopped. The number of idiots who don't look when they turn, stop at onramps instead of using it to join the flow of traffic, texting while they drive etc makes me more worried than the drunk guys
 
Thats one of the biggest / busiest intersections in Pinetown. The idiot is very lucky nobody smashed into him / or him into them... (At least its only like 200m away from fire & rescue ;))
 
At least he had the sense to not drink and drive. When has drinking and sleeping ever hurt any one?
 
What a silly driver, i hope they find him and do something about this legally as it is unacceptable for this kind of behavior to be shown as if it were an example to future motorists :( .

Kudos to the guy who got his car number plate.
 
Devill said:
No. It just shows you the passed out guy for 22 secs.

Ps Fudzy, is your sig from Dune?
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Meh.

Yes and no, heard it first in a track by Adam Freeland called Mind Killer, then looked it's source and thought it was sig worthy.
 
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