This is a site dedicated to providing support for victims of drunk driving accidents. This site is for the SURVIVORS. Too long have we been pushed aside. I also intend to use this site for awareness, prevention and to keep those who have been killed in drunk driving related accidents in memory. i want you to share your stories with the world. Something must be done. I will be getting facts and statistics soon. be patient!
Every 30 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related crash. Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes killed nearly 17,000 people in 2002 alone (latest figures available). Alcohol is a factor in 6% of all traffic crashes, and over 40% of all fatal crashes.
*If you are drinking, do not drive. If you plan to drink, designate a non-drinking driver.
*Support the strengthening and vigorous enforcement of impaired-driving laws. These laws save lives.
*Young drivers are at particular risk to be involved in alcohol-related crashes. If there is a young driver in your family, strictly enforce a zero tolerance policy with alcohol. All states have a 21-year-old drinking age law.
*Your best defense against a drunk driver is wearing your safety belt.
I would like to see the drunk driving laws changed. They need to be much more severe than what they are.
The "Environmental Engineering News" published some rather sobering information about punishment for drunk driving convictions in other countries.
In Australia, the names of drunk drivers are printed in newspapers under the caption, "He's drunk and in jail."
In Malaysia the driver is jailed and, if married, the spouse is jailed.
In the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden there's an automatic jail term of one year.
In Turkey, drunk drivers are driven twenty miles out of town and forced to walk back ten miles.
In Bulgaria, a second drunk-driving conviction results in capital punishment.
In El Salvador, your first offense is your last -- execution by firing squad.
It is estimated that 2.6 million drunk driving crashes each year victimize 4 million innocent people who are injured or have their vehicles damaged. (Miller et al, 1996b)
Drunk driving is the nation's most frequently committed violent crime. [MADD)
About two in every five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. (NHTSA, 1996)
In 1990, more than half of the fatal car accidents in this country were related to alcohol, killing 22,083 people. This is the equivalent of a fully loaded 747 crashing. Three times a week. Every week.
In the past decade, four times as many Americans died in drunk driving crashes as were killed in the Vietnam War. (NHTSA, 1995)
In 1995, an estimated 17,274 persons died in alcohol-related traffic crashes--an average of one every 32 minutes. (NHTSA, 1996)
In 1998, preliminary estimates indicate that there were 15,936 people killed in alcohol-related crashes. That's down from 16,189 in 1997.
Eight young people a day die in alcohol-related crashes. (CSAP, 1996)
Half of all teenage fatalities are alcohol-related.
About a third of all drivers arrested for DWI are repeat offenders according to data gathered from 12 states. (NHTSA, 1995)
In 1995, in Montana, 42.3% of the traffic fatalities were alcohol related.
STATISTICS - THE CHRONIC DRUNK DRIVER
21-34 Year old drinking drivers comprise approximately half of all the drunk drivers involved in alcohol-related fatal crashes, and have the highest blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) in fatal crashes. (NCADD)
Approximately 79 percent of legally drunk drivers have BACs greater than .15 and 52 percent exceed .20. (NCDD, Dec. 1996)
Drivers with BACs over .15 are more than 200 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than non-drinking drivers, and those with BACs over .20 are 460 times more likely. (NCDD, 1996)
These hard core drunk drivers account for only one percent of all drivers on the road at night and on weekends, while representing nearly half of all fatal crashes at that time. (NCDD, Dec. 1996)
In Loving Memory
God didnt take them.
a DRUNK DRIVER did.
KELLI LAINE LEWIS 06/1882-1/21/01
Tega Cay, South Carolina
Kelli's Myspace
HAYDEN VANN 03/09/84-06/06/03
Marietta, Georgia
Hayden's Myspace Memorial
JONAH FUENTES 7/20/1988 - 05/28/05
Baldwin Park, California
Jonah's Group Memorial
MICHELLE WRIGHT
killed 11/2/96
Mount Lido, Colorado
michelle'smyspace memorial
MICHAEL SCOTT STONE
5/13/50-9/16/98
Visalia, CA
ARMANDO ESCOBEDO
Killed July 13,2006
Terre Haute, Indiana
Link to News Story
DUSTIN TSCHETTER
August 13 2004
Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
DANIELLE ABRIL HARRISON
12/85 - 07/04
Grand Junction, Colorado
Ashley Ann Perry (Peaches)
Jan 15, 1984 - Jan 27, 2002
Virginia
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Danielle Harrison
Age 18
Killed July 11, 2004
Grand Junction, Colorado
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Kristian Weskensky
3-2-86 - 3-21-04
Carbondale, Pa.
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