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Drinking and Driving
Every year almost 20,000 people are killed in accidents involving people (or persons) under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That means that someone is killed from alcohol-related accidents approximately every 7 hours and 29 minutes. These types of accidents end up costing the nation almost $50 billion dollars each ....
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.... with both drinking and driving.
In order to try to stop teenage drinking and driving, 49 states, including the District of Columbia have established lower blood alcohol thresholds that are illegal per se for teenage drivers than for older drivers. In 1995 the federal legislation passed a “zero tolerance” law meaning that drivers under the age of 21 may only have a blood alcohol level of a maximum of 0.02 percent.
Studies have shown that in the past it was fairly easy for people under the age of 21 to purchase alcohol. In the 1960’s and early 1970’s, many states low ....
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