drunk driving

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As with earlier campaigns to shield the young from lead paint, drunk driving and cigarettes, laws change and social norms shift when the people speak up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Deadly traffic accidents are a common occurrence in Peru due to speeding, drunk driving, poor road conditions, lack of signage and weak enforcement by authorities.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

The case stems from a January 2017 incident in which officers Stephen Glick and Alfred Garcia and their two female police partners responded to a suspected drunk driving collision, according to their suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Such carnage has not prompted a societal response akin to the movement elicited by drunk driving in the 1980s.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2021

White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander