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To: Don Earl who wrote (7701)8/9/2004 6:51:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
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<<< the act of driving drunk in and of itself kills no one>>>

Not true. It kills around 17,000 people a year in the US and accounts for 41% of all traffic fatalities.

1 - I didn't claim that driving drunk in and of itself kills no one. I was quoting LPS5 who made that claim, and then I responded to the claim.

2 - In a sense the claim is right, but in that same sense jumping off a building doesn't kill anyone, the sudden stop at the end does... I think you and I would both agree that drunk driving greatly increases the risks to people around the drunk driver. I guess that even LPS5 might agree.

3 - A more accurate statement would be that drunk driving is a factor in 41% of all traffic fatalities. How many of those fatalaties would have happened even if the driver was not drunk is impossible to determine. My guess would be that in most of those cases drunk driving was the decisive factor but it wasn't in all of them.

The absolutely ludicrous part is on any given day, you will never see a State Trooper handing out right of way violations in hot accident spots, they'll all be parked on deserted stretches of highway where there hasn't been an accident in the past decade.

They are often focused on things like speeding tickets rather then eliminating serious dangers from the road. Sure if they see a serious danger they are likely to deal with it but they spend a lot more time and effort on minor traffic offences, most of which did not put anyone in danger.

Tim
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