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Drinking While Driving Becoming A Major Problem For North Carolinians
By: Jeffrey W. Winslow
Driving while/drinking is
a major problem throughout
the United States. Many
people think that the alcohol
content in one beer is less
than that in a mixed drink.
Both are the same. This
misconception is reinforced
fey the split drinking age in
North Carolina. Many
people claim that they can
drive better drunk than they
can sober. That’s like saying
they can drive better asleep
than they can awake.
Consider this. Ap
proximately 50 per cent of
all traffic fatalities are
alcohol - related, and almost
67 per cent of these fatalities
are caused by problem
drinkers.
National percentages
probably don’t mean as
much to you as North
Carolina - based averages.
Over 700 North Carolinians
were killed last year in
alcohol - related accidents;
more than the total number
of people murdered during
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SECTION B
Volunteer Week Proclaimed
RALEIGH- President
Ronald Reagan and Gov.
Jim Hunt have each
proclaimed the week of
April 18-24, as National
Volunteer Week. This
special observance is
designed to recognize and
pay tribute to the many
dedicated volunteers in
North Carolina and across
the nation who give
generously of themselves to
those in need.
The volunteer program
administered by the N.C.
Department of Human
Resources is recognized as
one of the best in the nation.
According to Mary Mac
Bradshaw, director of
Volunteer Services, “we
have an excellent group of
vqltiriteer directors and
}n our in
stitutions and in local
human services agencies
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that same period. Another
20,000 North Carolinians
were injured in alcohol -
related Accidents.
Don’t think this couldn’t
happen to you or your
family. The leading cause of
death among young peop'e
16 - 19 years olu is motor
vehicle accidents. The
principal factor in those
accidents is drunk driving.
DUI arrest rates are high,
also. The N.Y. Task Force
on Driving While In
toxicated has estimated that
the probability of being
arrested for DUI at 1 in 200
to 1 in 2,000 violations,
depending on the level of
impairment and the time of
day.
Over 500,000 North
Carolinians are heavy
drinkers, having two or
more drinks a day. This
figure includes 200,000
“heavy escape drinkers”
who frequently drink to the
point of intoxication. An
additional 65,000 “heavy”
juvenile drinkers imbibe at
least once a week, and on
Edenton, North Carolina,Thursday, April 22, 1982
across North Carolina. But,
for volunteer programs to
really be successful, they
have to have the full support
from top management. In
North Carolina we are very
fortunate. Gov. Hunt is a
very strong volunteer ad
vocate as is Human
Resources Secretary Dr.
Sarah Morrow. And, in
stitutional and local agency
top management strongly
support the use of volun
teers to help provide
government services to
people.”
During fiscal year 1981,
over 221,000 volunteers gave
almost 25-million hours of
service to DHR agencies
and institutions. Hie volume
of volupteer service w§» tl»
equivalent of 12,476 full time
employewwd reprwantn 9
dollar value savings to the
state of over $124-million.
each occasion have between
five and twelve drinks or
beers.
The next question is,
“Well how many of these
problem drinkers are
ams'eJ?” Os the 50 states
in / .men 'a, Norlh Carclir.-i
ranks third in arrests lor
DUI, behind Texas and
California. The arrest rate
for DUI in North Carolina is
1,400 arrests per 100,000
population, more than twice
the national average of 600
arrests per 100,000
population. These DUI
arrests have increased by
over 15 per cent between
1977 - 80. The 82,000 DUI
arrests in 1980 was more
than any other single
criminal violation. Half of
those arrests were of in
dividuals in the 18 - 25 age
group.
While the DUI arrest rate
has risen, the conviction
rate on the original charge
for all DUI arrests has
fallen from over 60 per cent
to under 53 per cent between
1977 - 80. Convictions from
Bradshaw says that the
Department of Human
Resources will use National
Volunteer Week to locally
recognize the efforts of
volunteers and to recruit
new volunteers to help meet
the human needs that still
exist through North
Carolina.
DHR has scheduled its
annual Volunteer
Recognition event for June
10, at 2 P.M. in the Kerr
Scott Pavillion of the State
Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
Both Gov. Hunt and Dr.
Sarah Morrow will be
present to thank several
thousand volunteers from
across the state expected to
attend.
“Hie vblunteer effort is _
Resp tp stay and should '
continue to grow in the
future,” says Bradshaw.
charges with the defendant
having a Mood - alcohol
content of .10 or more result
in 87 per cent of the cases. In
1960, guilty as charged were
68 per cent and guilty of the
reduced charge of reckless
Hr was 20 per cent.
Approximately U pev ctiii
were found not guilty. There
are, however, ap
proximately 9,000 North
Carolinian’s who have five
or more DUI convictions on
their and almost 200
who have 10 or more DUI
convictions on their record.
A recent study sponsored
by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Ad
ministration found that
most efforts to modify laws
aimed at drunken drivers
have centered on
manupulating the severity
of legal punishment without
changing the certainty of
such punishment. This
approach does not work, in
fact it appears that in
creased severity of the
legislated punishment
results in changes in the
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criminal justice procedure
that lessen the certainty of
its application This may in
turn reduce the deterrent
effectiveness of the law.
Another study sponsored
by the Insurance Institute
For Highway Safety found
liiai in states that hau raised
their legal drinking age
there was an average 28 per
cent reduction in nightime
fatalities involving in
dividuals in the affected age
group.
The Governor’s Crime
Commission has several
proposals to help stop the
growing drinking problem.
The first four fall under the
category of increasing
public awareness. They are:
increase emphasis on
hazards and penalties of
driving under the influence
in driver’s education
classes; increase education
on alcohol abuse in
statewide health education
programs; increase
education and media
programs for the general
public concerning the es
SECTION B
sects of alcohol and the
hazards and penalties of
driving under the influence;
and raise the drinking age
for malt beverages and wine
to 21, phased in over three
years.
The remain" , ~v>posals
fall in the category of ad
dressing the problem
drinking driver, and in
clude: require that anyone
caught driving with a blood
alcohol content of .20 or
more, or anyone arrested
for a second or more DUI
offense, be reverred to the
local alcohol treatment
facility; expand used of
alternatives to in
carceration in dealing with
the habiutal DUI offender,
especially using community
servic restitution; stress
the need to build DUI cases
on evidence of “appreciable
impairment” and not rely
only on breathalyzers in
basic law inforcement
training; support the efforts
of the alcohol and drug
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abuse section in coor
dinating the efforts of the
various agencies that deal
with alcohol and substance
abuse programs; increase
the level of follow - up action
on individuals that do not
successfully complete the
DUI school; eliminate the
law of careless and reckless
driving after drinking and
set up a gradation of DUI
offenses based on severity of
infraction with com
mensurate punishments;
support an increase in
funding for breathalyzer
training from the highway
fund; an annual report shall
be published by the Division
of Motor Vehicles listing the
disposition of DUI charges
by B.A.C. level for each
county in the state with the
presiding judge and
prosecuting attorney also
identified; and individuals
arrested for DUI may be
held for a maxium of four
hours if magistrate finds
probable cause that the
'individual is under t’'c in
fluence.
So next time you set ai.
intoxicated person trying to
start his or her car and drive
home, stop them. The life
you save may be your own.
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Support Group, Camp
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He joined the Marine
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