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In Reply to: What a waste of money posted by US1jm on May 24, 2008 at 11:41:48:
I wont waste the forums time with debating DUI and the law because some people will never understand it. Perhaps when they are put in the position to knock on a door in the middle of the night to tell someone their loved one was killed in a DUI accident, or even worse, when they answer that door, then they will understand the importance. Unfortunately, I have never worked a checkpoint where only one DUI arrest was made, but I happily look forward to that day. Incidentally, the driver who's had 3-4 in an hour is more dangerous because they are impaired but don't think they are.
Now back to BBQ and why I posted in the first place.
· Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and nonfatally injure someone every two minutes (NHTSA 2006).
· During 2005, 16,885 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2006).
· In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005).
· More than half of the 414 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 were riding with the drinking driver (NHTSA 2006).
· In 2005, 48 children age 14 years and younger who were killed as pedestrians or pedalcyclists were struck by impaired drivers (NHTSA 2006).
· Each year, alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost about $51 billion (Blincoe et al. 2002).