Don't drive without a seatbelt
How depressing.
A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey conducted in late 2008 estimates 17 million people have driven while drunk at least once on U.S. streets and highways in the course of a year.
The same survey estimates that 8 percent of all drivers, or 17.2 million people, have driven drunk in the same period, even though they realized they shouldn't have done it.
"We have got to do more, as a country, to close the gap between believing that drunk driving is a threat and actively doing something about it," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.
Yes, Mr. Strickland, we do.
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