have drunk drivers killed more people than wars

The court is also required to get tougher with intoxicated drivers to warn against the deadly act of drinking and driving.īefore taking any harsher measures, government officials should take the initiative in eliminating drunk driving in officialdom. Those who let drunk people take the wheel should also be punished criminally as accomplices. Those who cause accidents under the influence and cost the lives of other people should be charged with first-degree homicide instead of the current accidental manslaughter. He fled the scene of an accident after a car crash in Seoul in December 2016.ĭWI, needless to say, may become a behavior resulting in murder, not only for the drunken driver, but for other drivers, passengers and pedestrians. Kang, a promising Major Leaguer, ruined his career for two years after he was charged with DWI.

There are many unhappy and tragic cases caused by driving while intoxicated (DWI), but the case of Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Kang Jung-ho should become a bitter lesson for those who still dare to sit behind the wheel after drinking. To summarize, the presidential instruction came after more than 270,000 people joined a public petition filed with the presidential office by friends of a 22-year-old student studying law who was hit by a drunk driver early in the morning of Sept. Simple statistics show that traffic accidents caused by drunk drivers last year numbered nearly 20,000, killing 432 and injuring 33,364, proving that the related authorities' measures against the crime so far have been too loose to fight the deep-rooted evil. The presidential action is, indeed, timely but the government should have got tougher with those who took the wheel while intoxicated earlier.

President Moon Jae-in has declared an all-out war against drunk driving to meet the strong public call for harsher punishment of the deadly crime.

Intoxicated drivers should face harsher punishment

Have drunk drivers killed more people than wars