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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 1, 2013

Excellent puzzle. Hopefully the roads are becoming a little safer on New Years Eve. At least in the cities where many are volunteering free rides home to the inebriated. Also, a lot of states will punish the bars for letting people drink too much, then go out and cause and accident. Often tragic. We certainly owe a huge debt of gratitude to those in law enforcement who have to deal with these accidents.

Thanks Norma and Happy New Year to you!

I really think most people (not all, by any means) are becoming more responsible about driving after they've been celebrating. I think its been a gradual change in what is the "social norm" - kind of like wearing seatbelts. New generations grow up with a different perspective and it rubs off on us old folks.

Here in Ontario the RIDE program - Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere -- is entrenched. At times of the year when people are known to drink and may then get behind the wheel, such as Canada Day, long weekends, and December until New Year's Day, police set up "flash" roadblocks and check each driver. Could be anywhere - major roads or suburban streets, in places where drivers can't deke off the road to avoid it. Those thought to have been drinking are given a roadside breathalyzer test and if they fail are charged and their cars impounded. It has served to keep many who might otherwise drink and drive off the roads, if only to avoid the possibility of immediate serious penalty.

Right now in Ottawa we have the dentist who is fighting a case of impaired driving causing death. She left a bar, backed her vehicle into a parked car and left, had a head-on crash, and a man returning home from work is dead. She remembered to ask witnesses for gum, though. And just now in looking up the details I came across the November case of a California substance abuse counselor (!) accused of hitting a pedestrian and driving 2 miles with his body on the hood of her car. We still have the unenlightened -- I was going to say dangerous idiots, but I have resolved to be kind in 2013 -- among us.

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