dwi's and holidays

[GhostfaceKillah 0]

This is a current debate between me and a know-it-all female friend. She claims that the night before Thanksgiving is biggest nite for DWI's. I told her No that it is July 4th and Super Bowl Sunday that are the two most popular nights to catch a DWI. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery. Im dying to prove this girl wrong.

[custom36 5]

Early morning January 1st.

[GhostfaceKillah 0]

hey custom do you know if thats a fact?

[BilliardsBoy 0]

Early morning January 1st.

Yes, it is a fact I have heard numerous times.

[BilliardsBoy 0]

It can't be the super bowl because, lets face it, not everyone likes football.Everyone celebrates new years.July 4th is the other big one though, so you weren't far off. Not as bad statistically as NYD is, but they both are dangerous nights to be on the road.

[GhostfaceKillah 0]

if there is anyway you guys can provide some type of proof id greatly appreciate it. The woman im arguing with is one of those uppity, know it all, princeton grads who cant be silenced. And id love nothing more than to make her eat her words.

[fryer98 30]

I don't know the facts on the most DUI/DWIs, but the night before Thanksgiving is the 2nd biggest party night of the year, after New Year's Eve.Have you tried to Google it??

[GhostfaceKillah 0]

I don't know the facts on the most DUI/DWIs, but the night before Thanksgiving is the 2nd biggest party night of the year, after New Year's Eve.Have you tried to Google it??

yup but it just brings up useless facts

[SAM_Hard8 50]

Everyone celebrates new years.

I don't

[RhinestoneCowboy 2]

I think I have heard somewhere that the biggest bar night is the night before Thanksgiving, followed by St. Patty's day (NYE a lot of people have house parties)...

[fryer98 30]

I'll ask the cop that lives in the condo below me, see if he can help ya out.But, I might not see him for a few weeks...or months.

[ajs510 122]

Here's some hard data on alcohol-caused fatalities by holiday, don't know if that helps your cause any...http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,9193,00.html

[BilliardsBoy 0]

Those numbers are totally unexpected.How are people driving anywhere on Christmas?And how are lame holidays like Labor and Memorial day even on that list?

[BilliardsBoy 0]

Def an interesting topic to read up on.

A 2002 study of fatal two-car crashes by economists at Harvard University and the University of Chicago looked at a decade of data in the Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System and found a legally drunk driver was 13 times more likely to cause a fatal accident than a sober driver.Drivers who had been drinking but were not legally intoxicated were seven times more likely to cause a fatal vehicle crash.There were 17,013 alcohol-related traffic deaths in the United States reported to federal auto-safety regulators in 2003. Rhode Island had the worst record, with 55 percent of all traffic deaths alcohol-related.Fifty-three percent of Hawaii's traffic deaths were blamed on drinking and driving, 50 percent in Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina; Montana 49 percent, South Dakota 48 percent, Texas 47 percent, Wisconsin 46 percent, Connecticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts and New Mexico 45 percent and Illinois and Kansas 44 percent.Nationally, 40 percent of traffic fatalities and about half of all trauma injuries are alcohol-related.Utah had the lowest percentage of drunken driving-related deaths, just 15 percent.The number of alcohol-related traffic deaths actually has fallen 25 percent since the 1980s because of tougher laws that lowered the blood-alcohol threshold for drunken driving to .08 percent and mandatory seat-belt laws. But alcohol-related deaths have reached a plateau despite enforcement efforts in many states.DUI arrests rose 3.5 percent in California in 2003, but alcohol-related deaths increased for the fifth straight year. California has a zero-tolerance policy for driving under the influence by motorists under 21.Nationally, the rate of fatalities in alcohol-related motor-vehicle crashes fell 12 percent from 1994 through 2003, from 6.7 to 5.9 per 100,000 population.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed a national goal to cut drunken driving-related traffic deaths in the United States 32 percent by 2010, to 4.0 per 100,000 population.Up to 25 percent of alcohol-impaired drivers were on the road between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. -- a time when 60 percent of fatal crashes are blamed on drinking. They used quantitative economic analysis to determine the average cost to society per mile driven by drunks is 30 cents -- or an estimated $9 billion a year.

[ajs510 122]

Those numbers are totally unexpected.How are people driving anywhere on Christmas?And how are lame holidays like Labor and Memorial day even on that list?

For a lot of people (like me), any night where you don't have to get up for work in the morning is a good night to go out drinking...