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> The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high. No. They are not ridiculously high. They are minuscule. "In 2015,
by beefield 9y ago
> The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high.
No. They are not ridiculously high. They are minuscule.
"In 2015, nearly 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That’s one percent of the 111 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year"[1]
Assuming that all the drunk drivers that hurt someone else are arrested and most arrested ones haven't hurt anyone, odds of hurting someone when drinking & driving are way less than 1%.
(This is not to imply that I would like to allow drunk driving.)
[1]https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...