Nashville Auto Accident Lawyer Reports On A Driver Drunk On Vanilla Extract
Drink Drive Jail
Why do you suppose alcoholics get drunk and then get into their cars and take to the roads? I posited this question to a friend who has used the program of AA to stay sober for a dozen or more years. His answer was simple, if not somewhat shocking, “ We don’t want to miss anything. We think there’s something going on out there and we don’t want to miss out.”
I told him about a recent case out of Memphis reported on the website of the Commercial Appeal in which a woman was arrested while passed out in the front seat of her car which was parked in front of a middle school. Police found that the woman was drunk on vanilla extract that contains an alcohol level of 35% by volume. To my surprise he told me that in his years in the program he’s met dozens of people whose drink of choice was vanilla extract.
As my goal with this blog is to educate my readers in the hope that you all will practice safe driving and instill in your family and friends the need to do the same. Today I thought I would share some specific information about drunk driving compiled by Mother’s Against Drunk Driving (MADD) using statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
On average a human being loses their life at the hands of a drunk driver every 45 minutes. In 2008, an estimated 11,773 people died in drunk driving related crashes, a decline of 9.8 percent from the 13,041 drunk driving related fatalities of 2007.
About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. Over 1.46 million drivers were arrested in 2006 for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. This is an arrest rate of 1 for every 139 licensed drivers in the United States.
If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee auto accident by a drunk driver don’t hesitate, contact the experienced Tennessee auto accident lawyers at Phillip Miller & Associates.
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