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over 5,000 a year
It is not really possible to know how many vehicle accidents are caused by drunk driving. A person could make an educated guess, but never know for sure how accurate it was. In order to do this, you would have to find out have many accidents are actually caused by a drunk driver and how many are caused by a sober driver. Remember, a lot of vehicle accidents do involve a drunk driver, but they are all not necessarily all caused by them.
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There are many teenagers that are involved in drinking and driving accidents each year. This number is in the thousands.
Too many!
Many states are considering legislation to raise the driving age, especially since there are statistics showing that a disproportionate amount of automobile fatalities and other accidents are caused by drivers under the age of 24. While states are not necessarily considering a driving age of 24, they certainly do have justification for raising the driving age to 17 or 18. At the same time, however, many opponents of this idea say that such accidents are caused by inexperience, rather than age.
Many accidents are the result of reckless driving or driving while intoxicated.
Alcohol reduces driving skills.
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how many people died in car accidents in 2009?
about 100,000 are caused yearly by potholes
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