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To: The Californian

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/walking-while-intoxicated/?apage=3


10 posted on 07/13/2009 5:56:35 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Dr. Harris’s study brought some sharp reactions. In an editorial, ”Liquored Up, Smashed Flat,” The Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina took note of the fact that the incidence of people killed while lying in the road was not only higher in the rural South than in the urban North, but also that North Carolina appeared to be one of the leading states.

Whatever else the study demonstrated, the editorial concluded, ”It also is true and painfully obvious that not all of the South will rise again.”

Dr. Harris says there is little to be hopeful about in the report’s findings. ”In the end, the most sardonic and cynical thing you can say, I suppose, is that we’ve defined here a baseline of human behavior which no traffic safety measure will ever be able to correct.”

11 posted on 07/13/2009 6:02:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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