Draconian Measures Against Drunk Driving: Prevents It Significantly

I came across this very interesting article titled: ‘The Fight Against Drunk Driving’ (DD), in the “Gotham Gazette” on 19th November 2007, by Aubrey Fox project director of ‘Bronx Community Solutions on the subject matter of “Drunk Driving”, in the following website: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/crime/20071119/4/2349

This article provides some very comprehensible insights valuable data’s facts, on the crucial matters of DD specially the fatal deaths that occurred over the years.

Overall the author seems to argue that the drunk driving accident mainly the deaths have been significantly reduced over the years due to the stringent DUI measures; such as increasing the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, and decreasing the DUI limit from 0.10 to 0.08 BAC. Also most importantly Stringent restriction on the (repeat) DUI offenders from driving and imposing heavy punishment to the drunk drivers, staunchly advocated by those organization specially the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).

Moreover the relatively recent introduction of advance technology of installation of “Interlock Ignitions Devise” (IID)on the repeat drunk driving offenders vehicles seems to have brought very encouraging results in the prevention of the DD. Following this installation of this IID universally in every vehicles may prove very effective in preventing almost all DD incidents, accidents! (Nevertheless One cam find my opinion on this IID in the weblog http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/11/drunk-driving-ingnition-interlock-in.html.)

However the author’s viewpoint seems to mainly based on the institutions and organizations like “National Highway Traffic Safety Administration” and the “Mothers Against Drunk Driving” (MADD) stand point. They underline the need of such draconian measures that succeeds in terrorizing the alcohol drinkers more and more so to prevent them from drinking or the drunk driving!

Of course such draconian measures can successfully prevent many offence or crimes including the drunk driving significantly. We can see many such different kinds of draconian measures imposed by the governing authorities of dictatorial authoritarian regimes all over the world. They are very successful in preventing many such offences or they like to call as serious crimes! However the majority of it some how still happens, which still continues to devastate the peoples life!

It mainly happens because the root-cause of it very much remains in there totally intact. The greatest irony of all of it is that the Governing authorities on these matters themselves are the protectors of its root-cause in order to safeguard their own self or vested interests.

Nevertheless if it is possible to impose more draconian measures, the DD offence or the crime going to be significantly reduced further more! Let me propose some of it

Increase the drinking age from 21 years to 31 years. One may also include the people over 60 years, people having smaller body size or weight, women etc.

Decrease the DUI limit from 0.08 to 0.05.or perhaps even less!

Universal and compulsory installation of the IID in every vehicle. This is less draconian compared to the above two measures so I may even support it to some extent.

However my alternative proposal (see it in my weblog titled: Proposing A New Standard Alcohol Drinks Licensing Policy http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/11/proposing-new-standard-alcohol-drinks.html) to these above draconian measures is to impose strict restrictions and ban on all those alcohol drinks, which causes all these drunk driving accidents as the alcohol (ism) epidemiological survey points out.


I have explained this matter more in so many of my previous blog post in this month and the last month citing many of the DUI news reports. And most importantly read the following most important papers in my blog WebPages:
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-research-misconduct-cause-drunk.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/standard-alcohol-drinks-sads-cause.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/standard-alcohol-drinks-sads-licensing.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-prohibition-mission-failure.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcoholics-should-ask-compensation.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-driving-dui-facts-hidden-from.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-drivers-have-chance-to-fight-back.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-drinking-is-it-matter-of-choice.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-drivers-alcohol-vulnerable.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-driving-with-high-bac-is-wrong.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/11/alcohol-bosses-real-culprits-of-drunk.html

Vallab
Alcoholics Curewell.