WHO?
Blow-Me is a professional alcohol breath testing service for corporate events in the UK. Using high quality, Home Office approved equipment and fully trained staff, we provide a unique, memorable service similar to the Police roadside test to businesses keen to demonstrate their commitment to corporate social responsibility epically the topic of drink driving.

WHY?
Since our launch two years ago we have stopped over 1000 people from unknowingly drink driving after events all over Europe. We are booked mainly the morning after corporate events when employees / clients are staying in hotels, from a recent staff event of 300 people 74 said the morning after they felt ‘hung-over but ok to drive’ after testing them nearly 30% were still over the limit at 9am. These employees were all about to get into company cars to drive home.

HOW?
If you are holding an event this year please consider hiring us.
As already mentioned we are booked at the end of events and provide an alcohol breath testing service similar to the Police roadside test.
Of course, nobody likes to be preached to, so Blow Me has been developed to help raise awareness of drink driving in a non-threatening way and provide a simple and informative service to those people who wish to take part. Simply by being there we can help people think twice before getting behind the wheel as evidenced by our recent successes with Cadburys-Schweppes.

CLIENTS?
We have worked for a large number of companies ranging from large corporate companies: Cadburys Schweppes PLC and Honda through to the action packed events organizers like the Cannonball Run Europe and Kochu Events.
We have worked in venues from the NEC at a private party to a hotel reception in Bratislava, Slovakia.

If you are holding an event this year which has alcohol present please get in touch to find out what steps you can take demonstrate a strong socially responsible image and prevent your staff from UNKNOWINGLY drink driving.

Contact us for more information on 0800 0380 131

Sam Rose the director of the alcohol breath testing company BLOW-ME has just announced that the company has hit a major milestone in corporate responsibility.
So far this year the Blow-Me team has prevented 1000 corporate employees from unknowingly drink driving the morning after events across the UK. The innovative service which is carried out in the same way as a Police roadside breath test informs people of their breath alcohol content within seconds. Sam Rose from Blow-ME said ‘every business strives to present a socially responsible image, our service makes that image concrete and adds a unique talking point to an event’

Two of the arrests followed collisions involving injuries and nine more in other collisions, Sussex Police said.

Nine people were arrested on suspicion of driving or attempting to drive while unfit through drink or drugs.

“We have removed these people who are a risk to themselves and other road users,” said Chief Insp Di Roskilly.

“However, despite all of the publicity and messages about the danger of drinking or taking drugs and driving, some people are selfishly still choosing to drink and drive.

“Our message to these few is very clear – the odds are you will get caught.”

Drinks company Diageo is to pay for 10,000 midwives in England and Wales to be trained to offer advice on the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy.

The Department of Health hopes the training initiative will in turn help more than one million expectant mothers over three years.

It is part of government moves to bring the private sector into public health.

The British Medical Association has expressed concern about the drinks industry funding such a scheme.

Government guidance is for pregnant women to avoid drinking alcohol, but if they do to drink only one to two units, once or twice a week.

The Department of Health said the UK Infant Feeding Survey 2005 suggested that 34% of women gave up drinking while they were pregnant, 61% drank less and 4% did not change their drinking pattern.

Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: “Midwives are one of the most trusted sources of information and advice for pregnant women. This pledge is a great example of how business can work with NHS staff to provide women with valuable information.

“This will help over a million women over the next three years to make an informed decision about drinking during their pregnancy. It will potentially improve their health and also give their baby the best start in life.”

Family liasion officer Pc Sam Markland says using a different form of transport to get to work is important for anyone who has been drinking the night before.

“Get to work some other way, and that way you won’t wreck your life, and you won’t wreck somebody else’s,” he said.

“Drink-driving causes utter devastation.”

For the last four years Pc Markland has been one of the officers who visits homes on a daily basis to deliver bad news.

He is often the first person to contact the families of victims.

Range of emotions
“The first thing I will do is to go to the scene of the accident,” he said. “In some cases I can be one of the first officers there.”

He says this aspect is important as the family always want to know what happened.

“Unless you’ve got that information first-hand, you can’t give them the answers. I will only tell the families what I know to be a fact.”

Pc Markland has seen a range of emotions while doing his job from “total devastation and shock and raw emotion, to wanting revenge and anger”.

He added: “Every single situation if different, but they all have the same devastating consequences for the family.

“None of these road deaths were expected. They were sudden, huge shocks.”

Pc Markland said the reality of fatal collisions is often worse than the most intense television dramatisations.

“Reality is normally far more punchy, that’s something families find very hard to accept.

“Until you’ve seen it and you’ve felt it, that one stupid decision to drive your car – I can only say to you don’t do it.”

Lancashire Police’s summer drink drive campaign is running throughout the month of June.

In 2010 there were 46 fatal collisions in Lancashire, with eight involving drink or drugs.

GP Donald Clegg, 59, was involved in a crash in Bury New Road in Prestwich in December. He was found behind the wheel in his dressing gown and slippers.

Bury Magistrates’ Court heard that the sleepwalking meant Clegg, of Prestwich, was not conscious of his actions.

But the bench banned him from driving for 12 months.

He had admitted driving with excess alcohol and without due care and attention but only because of his state of “parasomnia”.

‘Special reasons’
Clegg was almost four times over the limit when he got out of bed and into his car on 8 December.

He drove for a mile while still “asleep” before crashing into parked cars. He was talking incoherently about driving to his mother’s house when bystanders snapped the car key in the ignition to stop him driving away again, the court heard.

The GP claimed the first he knew of the incident was when he woke up in a police cell.

The prosecution did not dispute Clegg was sleepwalking.

Clegg’s lawyer asked the court to use “special reasons” to suspend any driving ban – normally automatic for drink-driving.

A breath test showed he had 127 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

Such a reading normally attracts a driving ban for about three years and possibly a short jail term.

But magistrates banned him for a year, fined him £650 and ordered he should pay £300 in costs and the £15 victim surcharge.

George Davies, 69, denied the offence and told Worcester magistrates he had drunk Drambuie with a migraine tablet on his driveway just before his arrest.

Davies, from near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, was also found guilty of failing to stop for police.

He was fined £1,000, given a one-year driving ban and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and £965 in costs.

The Sober and Motoring (SAM) campaign began on 1 June and saw 13 people arrested in its first weekend.

Insp Vivienne Brenchley warned people to stay within the alcohol limits if they were considering driving.

Anyone caught drink driving faces a 12-month ban and up to six months in prison.