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Would being drunk help? In drunk driving crashes the drunk driver survives more often than the others directly involved in the collision, but I've never gotten
by JFlash 10y ago
Would being drunk help? In drunk driving crashes the drunk driver survives more often than the others directly involved in the collision, but I've never gotten a definitive reason why...
EDIT: survive more often than others directly involved in the collision who were in a comparable vehicle or in the same vehicle as the driver.
- maxaf 10y agos/accident/crash/g
- JFlash 10y agoSorry, fixed.
- passivepinetree 10y agoI believe the reason is related to the safety of the driver's position in the vehicle rather than the state of being drunk. The driver's seat is the only one guaranteed to be filled each time the car is driven, therefore car companies have a bigger incentive to care about the safety of that seat than any other seat.
- trevelyan 10y agoPeople also steer themselves away so the collision is more likely to happen on the other side of the car.
- squizzel 10y agoPhysics? I would assume the car driven by the drunk driver is travelling at a faster speed than the car hit.
- pkroll 10y agoThey're relaxed. Tensing up in a crash means muscles don't absorb impact, they transfer it to bones and organs. A relaxed person has a better chance on a fall or crash... up to a point, of course.