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1 posted on 04/04/2018 10:27:16 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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“Every day, 28 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver.”

Which doesn’t necessarily equate to 28 people a day dying in motor vehicle crashes *caused* by an impaired driver. If I’m at .10% BAC and driving well, going through an intersection, and some stone sober (but poorly skilled) driver blows a red light and t-bones me, that goes into the “alcohol-impaired driver” statistics, despite the fact that my impairment was not in any was the cause of the accident.

Also, the vast majority of accidents caused by an impaired driver are not caused by people who are barely over the typical legal limit of .08% BAC - they’re caused by repeat drunk drivers who are way over the limit.

Not to say that I support impaired driving, I just feel that over the years the penalties for low-level DUIs where no accident has occurred have become excessively severe.


2 posted on 04/04/2018 10:51:20 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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What are the stats on gun deaths? Gun deaths of minors (under 19), accidental death? Thanks in advance.

I’d “heard” that 4,000 “Children” each year die from gun deaths?

How about texting and driving deaths?


3 posted on 04/04/2018 10:54:02 AM PDT by Professional
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Huh? What does "Inspired Driving" mean?

Something to do with hallucinogens?

Or something to do with not putting my glasses on before opening FR?

4 posted on 04/04/2018 11:02:47 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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About 70 % of the people killed by a drunk driver is the drunk driver himself.

And most of the rest of the deaths are the person who got into the car with the drunk driver, the person who also assumed the risk.

The number of “innocent” fatalities is in the smallest category.

And whether those deaths took place because of alcohol impairment or some other reason is impossible to find, but possible.

Do not expect a cost/benefit/safety analysis based on realistic numbers.


7 posted on 04/04/2018 12:28:28 PM PDT by Gratia
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The only way to end drunk driving is to confiscate teetotalers’ vehicles.


9 posted on 04/04/2018 12:34:36 PM PDT by deadrock
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Every day, 28 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver.

Saw an article that listed every vehicular fatality over a long holiday weekend.

A drunk runs into a ditch, then walks down the middle of the road at night. Not drunk driving, but just as dead.

A surprising number of accidents where the drunk was not the driver.

10 posted on 04/04/2018 12:34:43 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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Is that a fist at the end of his arm?

I've owned a bigger flip-phone!

11 posted on 04/05/2018 12:15:00 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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