In the United States, unlike the now standard “0.08″ blood alcohol concentration limit that most states have adopted, different states have different laws on drugged driving. Canada seems to have a similar problem, based on this article, which calls attention to and discusses the issues of quantitatively analyzing a drugged driver’s ability to operate a motor vehicle.
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.”
