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Parents Driving Drunk Endanger Most Vulnerable: Their Own Children

Society & Culture (tags: society, Drinking and Driving, drugs, MADD, DUI, DWI, children, family, crime, death, sadness )

Dee
- 103 days ago - abcnews.go.com

It is a behavior that's hard to fathom -- parents driving drunk with their children in the car. Yet studies show that two thirds of children who die in drunken driving accidents are killed by the very people in charge of caring for them.

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Dee C. (513)

Sunday August 23, 2009, 4:47 am
""Criminal behavior that puts our children at risk" is inexcusable," said Carl McDonald, a former lieutenant with the Wyoming State Highway Patrol. McDonald said he considers combating drunk driving his life's work.

"As a trooper, I was very aggressive on drunk driving, and I was proud of my ability to pick up on that," McDonald said in a recent interview in New York. "I would walk up to a car and from eight feet away on initial contact with the driver of a car, I can tell you whether or not that driver was sober or intoxicated."

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Michelle M. (83)

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 7:49 am
Thank you Dee. I have no words to say that could say it any better.

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Dee C. (513)

Wednesday August 26, 2009, 3:46 pm
I am very pleased with the new laws coming that will charge those who drink and drive much more seriously on endangering a child..
How anyone can do this is just disgusting and no there isn't any excuses in it..

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