Driving under the influence or DUI for short, driving while intoxicated aka DWI, drunken driving, drunk driving, operating under the influence, drinking and driving, or impaired driving is the crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs including those prescribed by physicians.
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vital Signs: Alcohol-Impaired Driving Among Adults, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
When I lived in Australia, they had a horrible problem with drunk driving. They enacted some very tough laws. Far tougher than we have here in the U.S. Drunk driving fatalities dropped dramatically.
Still, it didn't stop some from doing the continuing stupid action.
Average number of times someone drives drunk before being caught - 80
Pretty amazing
Number of people who admitted to driving drunk over the past year 29,100,000
When I lived in Australia, they had a horrible problem with drunk driving. They enacted some very tough laws. Far tougher than we have here in the U.S. Drunk driving fatalities dropped dramatically.
Still, it didn't stop some from doing the continuing stupid action.
The stats here are amazing and not in a good way.
According to this, 4000 people per day are arrested for drunk driving in the US. That is astonishing.
Anti-drunk driving media campaigns seem to be very ineffective.
Then again, alcoholism is compulsive.