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