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Fewer Drunk Drivers on U.S. Roads; Concern Rises Over Drugged Drivers
National News • July 13, 2009
A new roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirms a continuing decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers.
In 1973, 7.5 percent of drivers had a ...
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| RE: DUI MAP | Joey | Jul 15, 2009, 1:42 pm |
| DUI MAP | LOL | Jul 15, 2009, 6:25 am |
| RE: BAC | Useless Feel Good Laws | Jul 14, 2009, 2:04 pm |
| BAC | DUI Map | Jul 14, 2009, 1:52 pm |
| Invalid comparison | Mr. Obvious | Jul 14, 2009, 1:27 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Meaningful Change | Joey | Jul 14, 2009, 11:39 am |
| RE: RE: Meaningful Change | LOL | Jul 14, 2009, 9:34 am |
| RE: saw a line somewhere... | Joey | Jul 14, 2009, 9:05 am |
| RE: Meaningful Change | Useless Feel Good Laws | Jul 14, 2009, 8:10 am |
| Meaningful Change | Carl | Jul 14, 2009, 7:33 am |
| Hey Joey | LOL | Jul 14, 2009, 6:26 am |
| Blood Pressure meds | Dizzy | Jul 13, 2009, 3:28 pm |
| RE: FARS Database | Stat Guy | Jul 13, 2009, 2:22 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: FARS Database | matt | Jul 13, 2009, 2:20 pm |
| RE: RE: FARS Database | Sherinsure | Jul 13, 2009, 1:42 pm |
| Misleading Headline | Skewed Title | Jul 13, 2009, 1:41 pm |
| RE: FARS Database | Useless Feel Good Laws | Jul 13, 2009, 1:28 pm |
| RE: FARS Database | Joey | Jul 13, 2009, 1:07 pm |
| FARS Database | LOL | Jul 13, 2009, 12:35 pm |
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Subject: FARS Database
Rather than focus on fatalities, you should focus on the drivers. Here's what you will find if you ever decided to look at the FARS database in a little more detail.
In all of 2008, there were only 2,440 drivers with a BAC >=.08 that were involved in a crash which resulted in a fatality. Of the 50,186 total drivers in 2008 involved in crashes, only 4% were legally drunk per FARS.
And you can not impute that all 4% were the 100% cause of the crash.
Counting fatalities is a slick way for MADD and other neo-prohibitionist lobbying organizations to make a problem seem bigger than it appears.
The US is arresting 1.6m people per year because 2,440 were involved in an crash were there was a fatality. An 18 billion dollar a year economy.
Mr Lahood is now trying to grow that economy by going after people on high blood pressure medicine. Welcome to the next road tax.