| Accidents caused due to drunken driving are | | | | driver to walk in straight line or making |
| one of the major-concern issues haunting the | | | | them read out a passage.The National Highway |
| US in the past few decades. Drunken driving | | | | Traffic Safety Administration is responsible |
| causes more than 16,000 automobile casualties | | | | for creating guidelines for safe driving. |
| every year, leading to more than a million | | | | They have implemented rules under the |
| deaths. Not to mention the millions of | | | | National Minimum Drinking Age laws to wean |
| drivers that are arrested for drunken driving | | | | drunken drivers off the road. According to |
| each passing year.Several people who party | | | | their estimates, these laws have met with |
| into the wee hours of the night drive with | | | | great success and have been able to prevent |
| the drink still inside them. Youth that | | | | more than 20,000 drunken driving deaths in |
| attend rave parties are susceptible to a more | | | | the past year.Various organizations are |
| serious problem, as they often mix drugs with | | | | dedicated to cause awareness about the |
| their drink. All these activities are deemed | | | | problem of drunken driving. Particularly, |
| not only dangerous but also illegal by law. | | | | MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) has met |
| Drunk driving endangers the lives of the | | | | with a lot of popularity in this field. Media |
| drivers and their passengers as well as other | | | | such as the television and newspapers are |
| people on the road.Strict methods are | | | | used extensively to educate people of the |
| employed by traffic authorities to restrict | | | | dangers of drunk driving. There are clips |
| and impound drunk driving. Measures such as | | | | showing gruesome drunken driving deaths |
| breathalyzers are adopted by traffic police | | | | interspersed with movies and TV serials and |
| to detect whether a driver is drunk or not. A | | | | true life accounts of victims.The country has |
| breathalyzer can ascertain the amount of | | | | met with success in its fight against drunken |
| alcohol in the breath of a driver. Another | | | | driving. The number of fatalities is |
| factor to determine the presence of alcohol | | | | dwindling off with each passing year. There |
| in the body of a driver is the blood alcohol | | | | is a 33% decrease in the number of deaths |
| concentration (BAC). A BAC level of more than | | | | this year from the past year. However, there |
| 0.15 is considered unsafe for driving. There | | | | is still a lot of work to be done and several |
| are other crude means adopted in certain | | | | organizations are working together to drive |
| jurisdictions such as making the suspected | | | | the bane of drunken driving into extinction. |