Highway Deaths Hit 13-Year High in 2003
NHTSA preliminary figures indicated an increase of 405 highway deaths overall in 2003 than the previous year and the most since 1990 when 44,509 people were killed. The 40 percent figure for alcohol-related deaths is unchanged since 2002, but the actual number of deaths was 18 less than in 2002.
Wendy J. Hamilton, national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, issued a statement saying the effort to reduce alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. has stalled. "This is unacceptable and MADD thinks it is time everyone be held accountable," she said in a news release.
"Congressional leaders, the Administration, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, the medical community, the public and MADD must all play a role in preventing the needless carnage on our nation's roadways due to drunk driving," Hamilton said.
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Isn’t it interesting that highway deaths are over 30,000/year and our government does very little about it? But in a one time event 3,000 people are killed and our government goes nuts and spends billions of dollars which cannot be shown to save any lives at all. In fact, in the process of spending those billions this country has caused the deaths of probably over 100,000 people. The only was I can explain this behavior is insanity.