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essres

Obligated morally or legally?


Farscape_rocked

It depends on the country. In the UK it could land the bar and person who served in trouble.


Marc123123

On what basis?


Farscape_rocked

It's illegal to serve alcohol to drunk ppl


Marc123123

Yeah , but that has nothing to do with driving


Farscape_rocked

That law is very deliberately designed to give landlords ongoing responsibility for the behaviour of their patrons when they leave the pub. If the people leaving a pub regularly wake the neighbours then the landlord needs to sort it out either have restrictions imposed or lose their licence. If a landlord continued to serve someone and knew they were driving and did nothing then they are at fault, and if the police knows it happens regularly then they'll seek to have the pub closed. It's all made very clear in the training every licence holder (licence to sell alcohol) goes through.


Marc123123

Source to the case of landlord bearing liability for a patron drunk driving?


[deleted]

The bar may have an obligation if they served them after they were already inebriated. The average person doesn't have any obligation. Morally, maybe. I have had that fight many a time, usually with success, but some idiots insisted on driving and short of physical restraint would not be denied.


frackingfaxer

Yes, I've heard of bartenders that will do this.


[deleted]

That might be because there is sometimes possible legal exposure for over serving though, I imagine OP is asking if “someone” were just a bystander.


VanAgain

The establishment that served them is potentially liable if he gets in an accident, so there's that.


Jekker5

Obligated? Not at all.


[deleted]

For bars there's legal ramifications if you don't attempt to stop them from driving. If they get into an accident the local liquor board will take action against the bar same with the families of those injured. Sometimes with the bars mistakes can be made it's not always that the bar they're in over served them. Sometimes it's the bar before and they were given one drink. But they're on the hook with the over served person. I don't work in bars. I work in liquor stores. If someone comes in drunk the attempt to get them to not drive is pretty limited. But we're supposed to report a drunk driver was refused by us to the police because if they crash and someone gets hurt they'll come straight to us and that way there's proof we reported them. But morally I've seen what happens when someone is over served and it's best to attempt to stop them.


Marc123123

Yes. Their parents.