I don't drive, but refuse to get into a car with someone under the influence now. I have in the past and it was stupid, the driver couldn't stay on the right side of the road, or on the road at all, I have never had a more genuine reason to fear for my life, I got out and walked the last few miles home.
A good friend of mines mother has been paralised from the neck down for the last 20 years from being hit head on from a drunk driver with her 2 (at the time, young) children in the car. She now needs 24 hour carers, can't talk, constantly in a wheelchair and it has made the life of the whole family much much harder. And it's horrible to see such a strong, caring and genuinely lovely lady have to live with such horrible disabilities, and the strain it's put on the family, at the hands of someone else, for no reason other than the other persons selfishnes.
Another friend of mine was the passanger and was killed in a crash because of the driver being shitfaced and slamming the car into a static road sign, his younger sister was in my "class" at college, and seeing how devistated she was totally turned me off it, and kinda made me loath people who are so selfish that they don't give a shit about putting the lifes of other people in danger, just so long as they can get wasted... It wont kill you to wait untill you are no longer in the car... In fact, it would probably help save lives.
Oh, and both drivers survived too, and as far as I know, with little repercussions.
"It will never happen to me"... It fucking could, and would you be OK with the death of a child on your hands?