Note that this happened in Texas.
I live in Texas and I’ve been a victim of a drunk driver. And so I can tell you that Texas has the most lenient DWI laws of any state in the Nation. And that our state’s DWI fatalities lead the Nation in per capita deaths.
Also noticing how other FReepers on this thread want to castigate MADD and draw attention to other reasons why our traffic fatalities are too high, but no one except MADD is making a difference in reducing the murders occuring on our highways.
Bullcrap. I see lots of those 'sobriety checkpoints' around. I've never seen MADD there even once.
MADD turned the corner from being an organization that makes a difference to an organization that is the enemy of freedom a long time ago. MADD is currently pushing to get states to lower the legal limit to below the published margin of error on breathalyzers, if they get their way anybody can blow drunk at any time. MADD loves those DUI checkpoints which make everybody driving on the wrong road at the wrong time give evidence against themselves.
Driving drunk is bad, and back in the 80s MADD did a good job of changing the American culture to understand that. But now they’re just prohibitionists.