Fewer Drunk Drivers?
I read a headline this morning that drunken driving was down in Maryland. It turns out that the headline was citing a study that surveyed people and asked whether they had gotten on the road after having had a few drinks in the last 30 days. The more accurate headline would have been that fewer people admitted to driving while drunk, not that fewer people actually were driving drunk.
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles reports that in 2008, 354 people were killed in Virginia in alcohol-related crashes. That’s almost one person each day of the year. That same year, 5,043 people were injured. Regardless of statistics or self-reporting studies, if your child has been injured or killed by a drunk driver, that’s 100% too many drunks driving.
Some people don’t like MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD’s mission is to get drunk drivers off the roads. One thing that can be said for the organization is that it has kept that issue in the news. Ask every mother who has lost a child or whose child was seriously injured by a drunk, and you’ll know that every one of them is against drunk driving.
There are special legal rules that apply when a drunk driver injures or kills someone. If your child has been injured or killed by a drunk driver, contact a lawyer experienced in handling such cases. Give me a call at 703-273-9500, contact me through my firm’s website, www.WRSattorneys.com or send me an email at srohrstaff@WRSattorneys.com. I will answer your questions for free. No child should die at the hands of a drunk driver.
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