A DWI (DUI, OWI, BWI) will throw a major curve into your life.  Drunk driving penalties are designed to deter people from drinking and driving. You will see your insurance rates go sky high, loose your license, maybe go to jail, and pay huge fines. Drunk driving accidents don’t just affect the offender either. Drunk driving accidents caused an estimated 11,773 deaths in 2008 – that’s approximately a person killed every 45 minutes.

Drunk driving costs all of us approximately $115 billion a year. That’s $1.1 in monetary costs, and $2.4 million in quality of life costs on average for every alcohol related fatality in the US.

(http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/alcohol/impaired_driving_pg2/US.htm)

All in all, these scary statistics (and countless others) add up to the fact that drunk driving is no good for anybody – and yet the numbers continue to increase.  Perhaps it’s the lowering of the blood alcohol content (.08 in all states) or just the fact that people are more aware of drunk driving stories and drunk driving laws, and increased news coverage of  drunk driving accidents have made us all more aware.

Drunk driving facts and drunk driving statistics are interesting to see, but they don’t really tell the whole story about what happens when one gets into a drunk driving accident or are affected by a dwi in some way.

This site will attempt to cover different areas of what happens in a dwi, and not just list drunk driving facts and statistics. Drunk driving stories from both sides; offender and victim.

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