| Issue 298 | December 18, 2000 |
| Mayor Giuliani told reporters last week he would do more to keep the
issue of drunk driving and traffic fatalities in the public
eye.
The Daily News reported that drunk driving-related deaths in
New York City have increased 17% this year from last, despite the publicity
in 1999 over the Transportation Alternatives pointed out that drunk driving is not the only - or the main - cause of traffic fatalities in the city, releasing these numbers: |
Note: Hit and run fatalities not included here. Some experts estimate that 50% of hit and run crashes involve a drunk driver. |
The NY Post seemed to anticipate this week's events and stories with a Tuesday editorial that, responding to new DWI legislation introduced in Albany, criticized legal loopholes that let most deadly drivers in NY State walk.
"The laws should be rewritten to cover all drivers - impaired or not - whose recklessness takes lives, but who are punished by little more than a slap on the wrist," wrote the Post.
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city's
car seizure policy.