Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make passengers in a car with a drunk driver guilty of a misdemeanor, creating more peer pressure to prevent drunks from getting into their cars...
...allow victim's families to testify at trials, forcing people to hear the havoc drunk drivers have wreaked...
...first offender will now automatically lose his license for 30 days, and judges will no longer be able to table drunk driving cases indefinitely. A second-time offender must choose between a seven-day jail sentence or a 14-day rehabilitation program at a completely isolated facility. Half of the mandatory fee offenders pay will go to support increased police coverage on state roads. And vehicular homicide now carries a mandatory sentence of one to 10 years. That sentence hardly seems harsh enough, but at least the emphasis is now on actual punishment instead of probation...
...problem, as the chairman of the special task force that drew up the drunk driving legislation stresses, that some of his committee's most potent legislation failed to gain state legislative approval, in spite of King's support. Which is too bad--the measures that the legislature left by the wayside are needed for any program that realistically hopes to curb drunk drivers. They include laws that would...
SADLY, EVEN THE TOUGHEST laws won't be enough. Drunk driving is still essentially acceptable in society. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration official estimates that for every 2000 drunk driving trips, only one offender is arrested, and that over 10 percent of all drivers on weekend nights are legally intoxicated. Citizens have to be more active in educating people about the dangers of mixing alcohol and driving. And society's view of inebriation as an acceptable means of having a good ol' time has to begin changing...