Originally Posted by wheel
Well yea you could just charge a person with drunk driving and give them five years. Not like it matters people want to drink and drive, and so do our leaders.
You can have all the laws you want. If people won't follow the logic or you can't enforce them what good does it do. Mob rule.
During 2005, 16,885 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2006).
In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005).
The drunk driving data provide new details that will help law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Transportation tackle this persistent problem, Secretary Peters said. She noted that in the last two years alone, the Department has invested more than $410 million in impaired driving efforts nationally to fund programs ranging from education and enforcement to treatment and improvements to the judicial process.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd...coholTSF05.pdf
around 2.8 million injuries a year and 42,000 deaths.
Well the attributes to automobiles and public safety and health I think is a different thread, but equally troubling.
Sweden
The lowest illegal BAC level is in Sweden (.02).
Penalties
For first offense with no aggravating circumstances, fines are imposed. For a BAC level between .02 and .10, the amount of the fine is determined by income level as well as BAC level and the circumstances.
For BAC level between .03 and .10, licenses may be revoked for 2 to 12 months depending on the circumstances and the BAC level. Above .10, a minimum 12 months and a maximum 36 months loss of license.
If BAC level is greater than .10, imprisonment for 1 to 2 months. A drunk driver who causes an accident involving a fatality can be imprisoned up to 6 years.
You can go here for other countries
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/inju...countries.html
becarefull out there tonight I will be hunkered in my bunker.
Cheers.