The MADD folks (along with law enforcement administrators and nanny regulators) have been junking up the "alcohol-related" stats for decades.
One can oppose drunk driving, and still find the 0.08 BAC mandates oppressive.
If you believe that a drunk pedestrian getting killed by a faultless motorist, or a one-beer driving getting killed by a sober red-light runner, or a fatal crash among sober drivers in which a tipsy passenger is killed constitute "alcohol related fatalities", then you are in line with those who claim "40% alcohol related.".
http://www.motorists.org/issues/dwi/index.htmlSome more MADD-debunking websites:
DUI Gulag, Responsibility in DUI Laws, and Get MADD.
The common thread in all of these sites is the fact that MADD is dedicated more and more towards a re-imposition of Prohibition, and less towards its original mission of getting drunk drivers off the road. IMO, the influence of MADD over our legislators poses more of a threat to the liberty of the average American citizen than any anti-terrorism laws (i.e. the Patriot act) ever could.