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You claimed that 40% of traffic deaths are caused by a driver that has been drinking. In fact your source actually says: During 2003, 17,013 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 40% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2004a).

The government, the police, and the other neo-prohibitionists suckered you into assuming that 40% of traffic deaths are caused by drunk drivers...but "alcohol related" means that any person involved in the accident, driver, passenger, or pedestrian, had a BAC of at least 1%. Also see Supercat's post 113 which puts that in context.

128 posted on 09/14/2005 6:40:42 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)

You are the one assuming... not me. I only offered a link to where 40% was mentioned and it was mentioned in the context of 'alcohol related'... not driver related.

Correction: My statement "had a BAC of at least 1%" should have read "had a BAC of at least 0.01."

131 posted on 09/14/2005 6:53:58 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)