The problem

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics, 16,653 people died in alcohol-related crashed in 2000, an increase of more than 800 deaths from 1999. Reaserch had indicated, that most impaired drivers never get arrested. Reaserch also has shown that the likelihood of apprechension is more important in deterring offenders that the severity of punishment. Therefore, enforcement is the key to creating the perception of possibilty if capture, while publicizing these efforts can reflect a real threat to detainmnet.

Volunteer to be a designated driver.

You can do a lot to protect yourself, even though society has done a lot to improve highway saftety. You have probrably always hear "Don't drink and Drive", but remember the risk of collision for high BAC drivers is several hundred times hugher than for a non-drinking driver. Don't ever let your friends drive drunk. Take their keys, have them stay the night, have them ride home with someone else, call a cab, or do whatever else is nesessary- but don't let them drive. Protect others and yourself by neve driving if you think, or anyone else thinks, that you might have had too much to drink. It's a;awys best to use a desgnated driver.

Drunk Driving is a serious National Problem

Drunk Driving is a aserious problem that has no single or simple soulution. Driving while either intoxicated or drunk is dangerous and drivier with high blood content are at increases risk of car accidents, highway injuries and wehicular deaths. Every single injusry and death causes by drunk driving is totally preventable. Unfortuanately over twenty percent of all traddic fatalities in the United States each year are casues by drunk drivers. Drunk driving remains a serious problem, that infortuanatley affects thousands of victims anually. The average blood alcohol conent among fatllat injured drinking drivers is 17. It's easy to forget that dry statistics represent real people and real lives.