Drunk Driving Crashes
Deaths from the war in Iraq VS Drunk driving?
since March 19 2003 3,647 total killed In Iraq as of August 1st 2007
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
According to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2006, 17,602 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes – an average of one every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 41 percent of the 42,642 total traffic fatalities. Drunk (those at or above an illegal BAC of .08) drivers were involved in 13990 fatalities in 2006.
This is an increase from 2005, when 17,525 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes and 13,613 people were killed in crashes involving drunk drivers.
http://www.madd.org/stats/1786
How come when I was a recruiter kids would always come up to me and say “I’m not gonna join the Army I dont wanna die”
Why dont they put that much thought into drinking and driving?
You dont want your kid to join the military cause he might die yet you let them drive?
whats worse?
This is great… I get so tired of people going on about so many soldiers dying in the war, but it is more dangerous on US highways. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t like hearing about US service members dying (heck I am one), but it drives me nuts when people (mostly liberals) go on about the death toll being too high, but you don’t see them wanting to crack down on drunk drivers even harder than they already do. They don’t call on a solution to drunk driving like they call for a solution to Iraq. This is just one of those interesting facts that people don’t think about. The streets of Iraq are more dangerous to Iraqis than to US personnel, just like the US streets are just as dangerous a place to us.
I don’t see this as comparing apples to oranges, dead Americans are dead Americans, because of those 17,000+ killed in 2006, these numbers include children that never even had a chance. They didn’t ask to be put in a situation where they would be killed, sometimes even in more gruesome ways than a gun shot wound. American service members volunteered and signed a contract understanding that they may be put in harms way to defend their country and its Constitution. People that die at the hands of drunk drivers are victims, service members that die from war are casualties. I know I may be sounding a little harsh hear, but how is it where you die different? Some folks go out to work knowing they could die today, others get blindsided by it.
