PARTY-goers are being warned to think about the consequences of drink-driving during the festive period.

Thames Valley Police, along with Hampshire Constabulary Joint Roads Policing Unit, will begin its Christmas anti-drink- and drug-drive campaign on Sunday. It will run until the end of the month.

At the launch event, Chief Inspector Henry Parsons, of Roads Policing for Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary, played a hard-hitting video, based on a typical office party.

In a speech, a man jokes about driving into work with a hangover, before admitting he killed someone.

The video will go public on Tuesday and local sports clubs will help to back the campaign on social media sites.

This year the force is not putting out its message on beer mats in pubs but instead is targeting the younger generation on social media.

Mr Parsons said: “It’s powerful and simple and we hope it works.

“A big factor in collisions comes from the morning after.

“Collisions involving alcohol or drugs not only devastate the lives of victims and their families, they also ruin the lives of offenders, who could face a lengthy driving ban or imprisonment.

“As well as having to live with the life-long guilt of having killed or injured someone through their reckless behaviour, offenders could also lose their job, home and their livelihood. Is it worth the risk?”