“In a blizzard or in especially icy conditions, we all support your good sense in slowing down and driving more cautiously. In normal day-to-day winter driving conditions, however, we do not enjoy slamming on our brakes, nearly spinning off the highway or into other drivers when you attempt to merge at 60 km/h while the rest of us are going the legal speed of 100 km/h.”
The claim that drunken drivers kill 15,000 people each year is simply not true (”Pet bill of MADD still lacks support,” Nov. 26). The majority of these deaths consist of drunken drivers killing themselves. Many more of the “alcohol-related” fatalities reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration involve drunken pedestrians struck by sober drivers, and accidents in which a passenger is drunk but the driver is sober. “Alcohol-related” is not tantamount to “alcohol-caused.”
