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Iirc dry counties tend to have more drunk driving accidents than wet counties. Reason being that people in those counties drive to neighboring counties, get dru
by jagraff 3y ago
Iirc dry counties tend to have more drunk driving accidents than wet counties. Reason being that people in those counties drive to neighboring counties, get drunk, and then drive home.
- dylan604 3y agoI grew up in a dry county. From my experience, most people drove to wet counties to purchase alcohol to bring back to the dry county to drink at home or at parties.
- nwienert 3y agosounds like one of those just-so stories people want to believe
- SkyPuncher 3y agoThe Wikipedia article [0] has a nice summary of a few studies. Notably > Data from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) showed that in Texas, the fatality rate in alcohol-related accidents in dry counties was 6.8 per 10,000 people over a five-year period. That was three times the rate in wet counties: 1.9 per 10,000.[18][19] A study in Arkansas came to a similar conclusion - that accident rates were higher in dry counties than in wet [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county
- _euqm 3y agoAssured to be 100% false