The alarming figures with regard to the amount of deaths caused by car accidents that involve alcohol have prompted state governments and the Federal Government to take primary steps to prevent fatalities. One of these steps is to lower the permissible blood alcohol attention (Bac) from 100 mg/dl to 80 mg/dl. However, such measures have proven to be inadequate as more recent figures show a dramatic increase in deaths caused by car accidents attractive alcohol. More stringent laws have to be enacted to prevent these accidents, which may consist of imposing stiffer penalties for Dui or driving under the sway cases.
Recent figures show that instead of the thinkable, decrease in the amount of alcohol associated deaths as a succeed of imposing a lower Bac, quite the opposite has occurred. In the last ten years, colse to 250,000 citizen died in alcohol associated car accidents in the United States. Figures show that 16,000 citizen were killed in the year 2000, due to alcohol associated accidents. In 2004, that figured climbed to 25,000. This means that 500 citizen die every week and 71 citizen die everyday in alcohol associated car accidents.
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In increasing to these figures, estimates show that the economic and societal cost of alcohol associated car accidents are very high. Alcohol impaired drivers cost American taxpayers about 21 to 24 billion dollars a year. Other studies show a much higher frame of 6 billion dollars is spent on alcohol associated accidents. This is in increasing to the huge assurance costs of alcohol associated accidents and the injury, destruction and death that come with them.
State and Federal Governments have lowered the permissible Bac that is aimed at lowering the amount of deaths caused by drunk driving. However, recent figures show that there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of deaths caused by drunk driving. Given this, there may be a need for more stringent interventions, such as imposing stiffer penalties for Dui cases. This has the possible of effectively preventing more deaths caused by alcohol associated car accidents.
Alcohol associated Car AccidentsMMDC: Early Years Tube. Duration : 5.55 Mins.References: docs.google.com Tim Rock of Guam's Pacific Daily news interviewed Gerald Heslinga at the MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center) in Palau in November, 1984. Rock's interview and videography above and below the water led to the broadcast of this video on Guam television that month, and also to a feature article entitled "Giant Clams: Micronesia's Cash Crop of the Future" which appeared November 25, 1984, in Guam's Pacific Daily News. As noted in the PDN article, by November, 1984, the MMDC had already produced over 100000 seed clams of mean size 1 cm or larger between 1979 and 1984, mostly of T. derasa but also more than 10000 specimens of T. gigas (illustrated in Figure 2 of Heslinga et al., 1984), and thousands of T. squamosa and Hippopus hippopus juveniles. On 5/21/85, MMDC harvested 340200 Tridacna derasa seed of mean size 3.8 mm. By 1987 MMDC had surpassed the million mark in tridacnid clam seed production and had produced over 30 tons of cultured clam biomass on site. This figure would reach 100 tons by 1994 and does not include the substantial biomass produced on dozens of clam nurseries established locally and internationally with seedstock from MMDC during that era. Also noteworthy is that at time this video was broadcast on Guam television in November, 1984, the MMDC staff had already conclusively closed the life cycle of Tridacna derasa by raising more than 100 specimens to full reproductive (male plus female phase) maturity at 5 years ...
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I agree with you that Alcohol is one of the most important factors in accident causation while driving. In fact, sobriety is finishing day in and day out.
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