Saturday, June 17, 2006

For Edith- Facts About Drunk and Drugged Driving.


  • An alcohol-related motor vehicle crash kills someone every 31 minutes and nonfatally injures someone every two minutes (NHTSA 2005).
    Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al. 2003).

  • Each year, alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost about $51 billion (Blincoe et al. 2002).

  • Most drinking and driving episodes go undetected. In 2004, about 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice, 2005). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005).

  • To further decrease alcohol-related fatal crashes, communities need to implement and enforce strategies that are known to be effective, such as sobriety checkpoints, 0.08% BAC laws, minimum legal drinking age laws, "zero tolerance" laws for young drivers.

Edith why didn't you get your man the help he needs before he kills someone,

Not to mention he totaled out a classic mercedes, did your BIG ASS speaker on the roof of the benz get damaged when he crashed? What was his blood alcohol level? and who will be your watchdog?

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

everyone makes a mistake, no one was hurt so lets get past this!

3:47 PM  
Blogger wtf_em3 said...

you have to be kidding!

7:44 AM  

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