He always used to tell me the first recording of being drunk in charge of a vessel was in the Bible when Moses was found ‘motherless in the bullrushes”!
But, in 1897, the first case of someone being charged with drunk driving was 25-year-old London taxi driver George Smith, who was fined 20 shillings at Marlborough Street Police Court after crashing his electric cab – an early Bersey electric taxi – into a building.
