Drinking and Driving

Statistical Analysis of Ohio's Drunk Driving Laws.

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News & Politics

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• Drinking
• Driving
• MADD

[adiilie81]

There is one HUGE flaw in your argument. Out of the 5 trillion trips made each year, how many are made under severe alcohol intoxication? 500 accidents caused by severe alcohol intoxication.... out of how many intoxicated trips? It is not OK to use ALL trips to make that risk assessment!

[jbrown75n]

@adiilie81

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[Jak00125]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what were the results of your case?

[jbrown75n]

@Jak00125 Hi. I hate to chime in on this healthy conversation as I made my statement in the video. But a question was asked about the outcome of the appeal. I have tried to hyperlink to the courts opinion but apparently there is some rule against this as it will not allow me to post it. I hope someone will be able to put this together. I believe it is important to see the process at work and what passes for law in this country. JB. driving and drinking dot org slash docs slash opinionsm. pdf

[kwikimart579]

that number is exagerated to by madd

[AaronCookdotCom]

IMHO, MADD is just like PETA...they're only interested in promoting themselves and their own selfish agenda. Period.

They continually ignore facts and statistics. And they misled the public with skewed statistics in order to further their agenda.

The country would be MUCH better without them. Because of them, our rights, privacy and personal liberties are being trampled on more and more each day. Buncha fucktwats. And we don't need them!

[lightmolecule]

I am very sorry to hear of your troubles.

[southforsunshine]

@adiilie81 The problem is the heavy drinkers often don't lose their license until AFTER they hurt somebody. I'm just sick of hearing "pedestrian Joe Schmoe and two others were killed by a drunk driver doing 110 mph the wrong way down a one way street. The driver had prior DWI charges". Send them to jail when they get caught and don't give their license back, ever. If you lack the most basic skills to EXIST in the populace without hurting people, you don't deserve to drive a 4000 pound rocket.

[southforsunshine]

How could anyone argue for less harsh penalties for drunk driving? I don't care if you don't like MADD, or you don't think 16,000 people is very many. Tell you what, take those 16,000 people who's lives are taken each year by other peoples selfishness and stack them up within your property lines. I suspect you'll have one of the tallest building in Columbus. I agree the law was unfairly applied in your case, but for actual drunk drivers? I say throw them in jail and revoke their license for life

[CComb501]

I just read your appel response. Sorry to hear that. That is such bullshit. MADD has created this insane witch hunt. I wish there was a wah to rid the US of this real enemy to freedom. Only getting worse, and yes MADD is out to have interlock devices installed in all vehicles not just those convicted of dui. I know this to be factual. They have caused the creation of such bullshit laws that no one is safe from their neo-NAZI BS anymore. What are they going to take away next. Take Care-

[CComb501]

MADD is the real danger. Their revenge and retrubution seeking BS has undermined the Constitution and has ruined so many people's lives, careers, relationships and financial ability to take care of oneself and they will never stop until we stop them. An unconstitutional roadblock can result in someones rights being taken away, interlocks mandated and lives screwed over for years due to the likes of MADD. We have to rid the US of those fanatical neo-NAZI bastards once and for all.

[clmabry]

I promise to give $10,000 ( the amount I have in a CD account ) to anyone who can give a logical reason why it should be illegal to drive drunk on private property that does not have public access.

[adiilie81]

1. Actually, you can determine how many trips are made under sever alcohol intoxication. Out of your estimated 24.820 trips (in 34 years of driving), how many times did you drive really drunk? A statistic is difficult to get, even if you did drive a lot drunk, as most people did not do it - not even once.

[adiilie81]

2. Out of the estimated '7 million' drivers of Ohio, I bet less than 1% ever drove at least once really drunk. That would mean about 70.000 drivers. Do you have 70.000 crazy drunk-all-the-time drivers in Ohio? I don't think so, ergo we can assume safely that they drink hard and drive rarely. Say about twice a year (on average).