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Kevin Sterling
2:05 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013
Actually we've seen a significant reduction in the number of people who die in drinking alcohol involved highway fatalities since we've gotten more serious about enforcing both the laws against driving impaired and enforcing the age limit at the point of sale. It's just plain absurd to pretend that we haven't been successful in improving our world by keeping the drunks off of the highway.
I was in high school in the 1970s. The common "wisdom" among my fellow students about drunken driving was if you get pulled over be nice to the cop. If you're polite he'll probably offer to follow you home to make sure that you get there safely.
http://www.centurycouncil.org/drunk-driving/drunk-driving-statistics
from article linked above:
In 2011, the rate of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities per 100,000 population was 3.2, representing a 65% decrease since 1982, when record keeping began, and 49% since the inception of The Century Council in 1991. What this translates into is, for every 100,000 people in the US in 2011, slightly more than three people were killed in a drunk driving fatal crash, a rate that has been cut almost in half over the past two decades - down from a rate of 6.3 in 1991.
Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 31% of the total vehicle traffic fatalities in 2011. Between 1991 and 2011, the rate of drunk driving fatalities per 100,000 population has decreased 49% nationally, and 63% among those under 21.
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