The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over-inflates drunk driving statistics to support prosecution of anyone with alcohol on their breath. Consider this: of drivers involved in all accidents in 1995, only 19 thousands of one percent (.00019)% were legally defined drunk drivers in fatal multi-vehicle accidents, and only half of those accidents were the fault of the drunk driver. National figures on "drinking-related" accidents are seriously over-inflated. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a federal agency that says that 7 percent of all accidents in 1995 were "alcohol related." What they don't publicize is how they reach that figure. They don't tell you that the figure counts any accident in which any driver was drinking, regardless of fault. Approximately half of those accidents were caused by the non-drinking driver. They also don't tell you that the figure counts drinking pedestrians who are hit by non-drinking drivers! Excuse me, but drinking and walking is not a crime! However, they use these questionable techniques which unrealistically over-inflates the statistics of drinking and driving.
(Source: The source of these statistics is the March 2, 1998 article "Hunt on For 'Witches' Among U.S. Motorists" by Stephen A. Beck, in The Spotlight Newspaper.)
Why oppose this method of counting drinking-related accidents, you might ask. It's simple. It's not fair. Is the goal to persecute drinking drivers, or to determine how often alcohol contributes to drinkers causing traffic accidents? If it is the latter, then we have to use fair numbers. The purpose of compiling statistics should not be to get over-inflated information to bolster one point view.
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