Police caught 526, 000 drunk drivers last year, up 68 percent from a year earlier.
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Two thirds of the fatal crashes during these pre-dawn hours involved drunk drivers, according to the agency.
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Coinciding with the advertising push, states are cracking down on drunk drivers with increased enforcement efforts in communities nationwide.
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Typically, such "Driving While Intoxicated" (DWI) courses feature grisly films about accidents, injuries, deaths and other life traumas inflicted by drunk drivers.
The only thing he loved more than stopping drunk drivers and hunting was spending time with his wife, Angela, and their three daughters.
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Other factors, it says, have also contributed to the decline in deaths, and fatalities among under-age drunk drivers have fallen by only 13%.
The ads convey the message that law enforcement officers are both omnipresent and vigilant in deterring drunk drivers, according to the Department of Transportation.
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At long last, in many cases, drunk drivers are being forced to accept responsibility for their heinous acts because a fed up public has had enough.
Police in every state will be out in full force conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols to catch drunk drivers, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices.
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Moreover, many Americans seem to accept the gun industry's argument that it cannot be held liable for the misuse of guns any more than car makers can be sued for deaths caused by drunk drivers.
In the past 11 months, more than 14m vehicles have been stopped and checked, 6m fines issued, 20, 000 drunk drivers arrested, and more than 50, 000 defective vehicles taken off the roads, most of them buses and taxis.
Several writers have mentioned the breath test given to drivers suspected of being drunk, introduced when she was in charge of transport.
Last week lawmakers passed a bill penalising drivers who come to New Mexico with drunk-driving convictions from other states.
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And the incidence of drunk driving by pro athletes who can easily afford their own full-time drivers but often choose not to reflects both an appalling lack of personal responsibility and recognition of the past shortcomings of others who thought they were above it all.
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