This article brings excellent news – not only that our roads are 25% safer, but that there is a way to actually control impaired or drunken driving.  It seems that so many reports regarding substance abuse simply point out growing problems.  Rarely do we see reports about something that is actually working.

Great news and good model.

“There have been 23-percent fewer alcohol-related truck crashes per mile in the U.S. since commercial truck drivers were required to submit to alcohol testing beginning in 1995, Reuters reported Oct. 1.

In fact, the rate of alcohol-related crashes resulting in fatalities is now about the same among commercial truckers as it is among commercial pilots. The rate of fatal crashes per mile traveled for motor carriers has “decreased significantly,” according to researcher Guohua Li of Columbia University.”

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/truck-crashes-way-down-since.html