Originally Posted by
notofeudalism 
to turn it into a DUI thread. Poeple are killed in lots of different ways by cars. drinking, eating, texting, turning around for a split second, simple distraction. Plenty of people are killed by people who are simply careless. They didn't intend to kill someone, like you said. It's a hard call with cars as they are large and heavy and can be used for a variety of purposes.
When it comes to alcohol and car crashes the statistics are pretty sobering (no pun intended):
In 2005, 39% of fatal crashes (all age groups) involved alcohol. The rate of alcohol involvement in fatal crashes is more than three times higher at night than during the day (59% vs. 18%). (NHTSA)
On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 45 minutes. In 2008, an estimated 11,773 people died in drunk driving related crashes—a decline of 9.8 percent from the 13,041 drunk driving related fatalities of 2007.
About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives.
Alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion in 2000, including $51.1 billion in monetary costs and an estimated $63.2 billion in quality of life losses. People other than the drinking driver paid $71.6 billion of the alcohol-related crash bill, which is 63 percent of the total cost of these crashes.
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving - Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving - Statistics Welcome to SADD