Law of United States permits 21 years or older people
consume alcohol. However, driving under the influence is certainly not permitted
for the people of any age. Blood alcohol content limit considered insufficient
to influence the senses of a person is 0.08 in US. If the level rises above
this level, the influenced person get the permission to drive a car revoked for
as long as the influence remains. And yet, there were 1.1 million arrests made
of the persons who drove cars under influence in 2014.
The number of arrests is merely a faction of the total
number of people driving under influence every year in US. The number of people driving under influence
was 28.7 million, as stated by United Sates Department of Health and Human Services. Since these numbers could be obtained from anonymous and
self-reporting records, it is speculated that the actual number may be higher
many folds. Analysis shows that there could be 9 percent, of total population,
that has a habit to drive vehicles under influence. What we can say for sure
here is how disastrous the driving under the influence of alcohol could be.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that
nearly 10.000 people died due to car accidents resulted by under-influence
driving. This number makes more than 30% of the total road accidents happening
every year in US. Among 10,000 people died, the number of children under 14
years was 209, and half of those children were traveling as passengers in the
cars driven by persons under influence. Divers between the ages 21 to 24 made
30% of the drivers killed crashes. Number of drivers between the ages 25 – 44
made 53% of total number of drivers died in this statistics.
In 2014, nearly 12,000 drivers, who got injured due to car
crashes, were reported to have alcohol in their systems. New York, Florida, California,
Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are the top six cities most numbers of
fatalities involving driving under influence happen.
Law enforcers seem pretty much at work of prohibiting the
under influence drivers from hitting the road. Their hard work has resulted in
a prominent decrease in the number of fatalities but the number is still
dangerously higher. The need is to drive sense into people that driving under
influence doesn’t only put at risk their lives along with the passengers
travelling with them, but it is also fatal for everyone on the road.
Although the under-influence drivers aren’t eligible to file
personal injury claims in order to get compensation, the ones who get affected
due to crash can file the lawsuit. For this purpose, the claimant needs to hire
qualified service lawyer who will present case in the court to get claimant the
compensation he/she deserves.
