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To: MRMEAN
Hey assumer, my link supports his contention dont'cha think? You assume way too much.
135 posted on 09/14/2005 7:18:53 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport
Hey assumer, my link supports his contention dont'cha think? You assume way too much.

Nooooo your link did not support the assertion that 40% of fatal accidents were caused by a driver that had been drinking. If you can put aside your evident preoccupation with anal sex for a few moments...please read the content of your own citation, which I have already once posted for you, to wit:

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).

I also pointed out to you in my post 128 that "alcohol-related" did not mean that the driver was drunk, it simply means that somebody, anybody, involved in the accident had a detectable BAC content, which could be as low as .01, which is 8 times below the .08 level in use by most (now all?) states, and 15 times the .15 level that used to be the norm. Since you seem not understand simple abstract concepts this evening, I will tell you a little bedtime tale:

Once upon a time there was a man named Pedro, who was a driver of a 1992 Ford EconoVan containing 19 other "undocumented" workers, returning from a day in the groves to to their rented 2 bedroom house. Jose was a passage in the back of the van, and is drinking a type of tequila from his home village, where it is considered a health beverage. Jose is the only person in the van with any alcohol in his system, and at autopsy, it will be found that he had a BAC of .03. Pedro is going 95 MPH southbound on the Florida pike in the passing lane when the music cassette runs out. Pedro pops it out and fumbles for the another mariachi tape...but inadvertently turns the steering wheel and flips the van...into a 2002 SAAB 9-5 wagon, driven by Stephan, a 27 year old father, with his wife Sally in the front passenger seat, and his son, Junior aged 6, and daughter, Tiffany, aged 4, both in proper safety seats in the back. None of the four passengers in the SAAB had been drinking, and all survived, with varying levels of injuries, the accident. But the SAAB careened over the highway, and struck and killed a hitchhiker who was standing next to an entrance ramp to the highway. The hitchhiker had not been drinking. Eight of the passengers in the van were thrown from the van and were killed, including Jose.

In this sad little story we have 25 people involved, and nine dead. No one except one passenger in the van had any alcohol in his system, and his BAC was well below the amount considered "impaired" for driving. Test question: Is this fatal accident "alcohol-related?"

Answer: Yes it is! Jose, in the back of the van, who did nothing to cause the accident, had a detectable BAC content, and so this will be reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as one the 40% "alcohol-related" fatalities. Was the driver drinking? No! So your link does not support the assertion that 40% of traffic deaths are caused by drivers who are drinking.

145 posted on 09/14/2005 9:20:11 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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