“In 2006 (in the U.S.), there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher) – 32 percent of total traffic fatalities for the year. That’s almost 14,000 people who would be alive today if it were not for the selfishness of someone who got behind the wheel after drinking alcohol.”
That is pure poppycock!
You’re equating the mystifying term “alcohol related” deaths with drivers being legally drunk. The true figure is around 3,000 per year.
Alcohol related deaths include a designated driver T-Boned by Grandma Jones and he and his three buddies (who have been drinking) are killed.
I implore you to read Radley Balko’s rather definitive deconstruction of the NTSB and associated MADD hysteria.
www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-501es.html
