Driving in America vs War since 2001

In 2011, more than 3,300 people died in crashes involving distracted driving, add to those numbers killed by drunk or impaired drivers each year on an average of 30 American people a day = over 10,900 each year...

    In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.

    Of the 1,210 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2010, 211 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.

    Of the 211 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2010, over half (131) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.

    In 2010, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.  That's one percent of the 112 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.

    Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are often used in combination with alcohol.

American's raise more than an eyebrow at (not being insensitive) the number of US Troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, which number just over 7,000.  So we can see by these stats, War is Safer than Driving on our American Roads.