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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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Subject: Misleading Headline
When you actually read the referenced survey, a much different picture is painted.
Yes there are less drunks on the road. However, this is the first time they surveyed both legal and illicit drug use. The survey has disclaimers all over it stating different drugs have different characteristics, there is no coorelation between the presence of a drug in the systems and impairment, some drugs impair immediately but the impairment goes away after taking the drug for some time, so on and so forth. About the only conclusion that caem out of the drug side of the survey was that the drug use should be looked at sometime in the future.