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The statistics are frightening. According to the Department of Transportation, two of every five Americans will be in an alcohol-related car accident. Almost 24,000 people die each year in alcohol-related car crashes. More than 500,000 people are injured in such accidents each year. Drunk driving accidents...
Media interest in drunk driving peaked in 1983 after the fierce lobbying efforts of MADD and other groups resulted in harsher anti-drunk driving legislation and the raising of the drinking age, says DeJong. He cites work done by MADD and the Department of Transportation as "changing the way people...
When Boston TV news reporter Dennis Kauff was killed in a drunk driving accident three years ago, local reporters "were enraged," and decided to try to bring attention to the problem, says Jay A. Winsten, director of the Harvard Center for Health Communication and the Harvard Alcohol Project.
Boris Shcherbina, a deputy prime minister who directed the cleanup after the April, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, told Tass in Leninakan:
LA.P.D. Detective Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) smells trouble. And gets it. Thugs drill him with lead, he gets wet paint on his jacket, a bear trap snaps on his leg, and a window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before...