Ms Gillian Treacy:

I find it appalling that anybody thinks that drinking and driving go together because they do not. I witnessed my son lying on a trolley dead and then to learn he was dead because of a drink-driver was completely unacceptable. His death was not natural and it was not right. It is simply not acceptable. Deputy Troy's opinion of somebody getting a taxi home and being a good person but still getting caught the next morning is not acceptable either. If that person hit a car and killed the person driving it, that death would not be any less than if that person was hit after hours. There is no excuse, be it morning time or night-time. My crash happened at 8.30 in the evening. I did not in my wildest dreams expect to meet somebody who was out of their mind from drink and for that person to be injure me very badly and kill my son. That mindset has to change. It is completely unacceptable.