On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 9:47:42 AM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/13/2016 8:39 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 7:22:46 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> >> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> This is America. We barely care about drunk driving, as evinced by
> >>> our lenient drunk-driving laws.
> >>
> >> Lenient? Don't get caught DUI in Virginia.
> >
> > Virginia:
> >
> > Virginia categorizes a first DUI offense as a class 1 misdemeanor and imposes a fine ranginging from $250 to $2,500. The law also imposes a one-year license suspension. The punishment increases if you were arrested with a BAC of 0.15% or higher in which case your sentence may include a minimum five-day jail sentence..
> >
> > Sweden:
> >
> > Surpassing the limit is a serious offence, fined with ‚¬500. Driving with an alcohol rate over 0.12% is a crime (up to 6 months imprisonment and license suspension up to 4 years). Sweden: 0.02% (up to 6 months imprisonment), 0.10% (imprisonment, maximum 2 years).
>
> What about Cananda? That's where lucretia lives. Just because some
> country has draconian laws doesn't mean ours are bad.

Canada's laws seem only slightly stiffer than ours.

<http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/AlcoholCountries/background_&_intro.htm>

Looks like the U.S. has about 10,000 drunk driving fatalities per
year, or 30% of all driving fatalities. Unless one simply thinks
of it as "evolution in action", we've got some room for improvement.

<http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html>


Cindy Hamilton