Recent Drunk Driving Arrest, Wrong-Way Crash on Woodward Fit National Trend
Two alcohol-related incidents in the past week demonstrate what a new national study found about wrong-way crashes.
Two incidents on Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham during the past week are local examples of what a new national study concluded about wrong-way crashes. On average, 360 people die each year in wrong-way collisions, researchers with the National Transportation Safety Board found. And the majority of those crashes, nearly 60 percent, involve alcohol. The study analyzed data from more than 1,500 crashes between 2004 and 2009. In 59 percent of the accidents, wrong-way drivers had blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit, researchers said. In another 10 percent of the crashes, drivers had alcohol levels between .08 and .14. The limit in most instances is .08. Officials with the Bloomfield Hills Department of …
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Tom Bruff
7:22 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Using that same logic, you also need to factor in the number of vehicles that travel through the intersections in order to get a true picture of these high crash locations. more ›