Drink-Driver Caught After His Car Phones Police
A man who was hoping to escape punishment for crashing his car while drunk has been bitten on the backside by modern technology, after his car reported the impact to police.
In the aftermath of binning his Ford Fiesta badly enough to fire the airbags, the dim-witted driver in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, apparently took himself home on foot, hoping to duck the law and present an excuse after he’d given himself chance to sober up.
However, unknown to the intoxicated weasel, the Fiesta’s Sync system is programmed to phone details of a hard crash straight to the emergency services, in case the driver is unconscious and needs urgent help.
When the bobbies turned up at the empty Fiesta, they traced its owner and discovered him quite clearly still over the limit, and the little Ford’s emergency call was enough to place the drink-driver back at the scene.
The technology is set to be an EU requirement from April 2018.
Comments
Implement this in Mustangs.
It’d call the police every five minutes.
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Sorry. Beating a dead horse I know
More like beating a dead Mustang.
I’ll show myself the door out…
Sorry for the Downvote but Nathaniel’s comment is better
Mustang has this….
Drink driver?
One that drinks and drives
So, if a Ford Mustang loses control, the car will call ambulance?
When your car hates you so much that it helped the police to arrest you…
Comment of the week material.
Or, in the case of Phil and Colin.
Just breakdown cause why not.
Ford Mustang new feature leaked: drunk control.
P1eased0nteatme near you eh?
Yeah Antrim’s me
We need this here in america
we have it…
I swear officers I’m not drink
*Fix the title, it says drink-driver
That’s what we call it here!
Drunk*
Don’t drink and drive guys. Because you might hit a bump, and spill the drink.