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OK, I don't know if people are going to get pissed at me for this, but I have a question. I think drunk driving is as bad as everyone else does, but I've always wondered...there are THOUSANDS of accidents that happen every day, right? And most of the time everyone is sober. It says in that link that the guy had only had a couple of beers. I guess my question is, how do you know for SURE that the accident was caused by the alcohol in his system?
I'm just saying that every few seconds in America there is probably a time where someone makes a turn and they don't see someone else is there, and there is an accident. Something happens too fast and they couldn't react in time. Every second there is also probably someone who had a few drinks but arrives home safely.
Of course being impaired by alcohol increases your chances of an accident, but if someone has only had a couple drinks, I don't know if they should really go to jail for getting in an accident, considering there really is no way of knowing if the accident would have happened had they been sober. I don't think there's much of a difference in reaction time between having 2 drinks or just being really tired. Should being really tired when driving be something that someone should be put in jail for if they get in an accident? Does this make any sense?
And of course none of my questions apply to people who are driving DRUNK, just buzzed.
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