Ten Percent Of Drivers Drive Drunk, AAA Says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ten percent of drivers admitted to driving drunk in the past month, AAA says.
The report said that motorists consider drunken driving the most serious traffic safety issue, followed by running red lights.
Fifty percent of the drivers in the study said they talked on their cell phone while driving in the past month, and 14 percent said they read or sent text messages while behind the wheel.
“The ‘do as I say but not as I do’ mentality needs to end,” AAA of Northern California spokesman Michael Geeser said in a statement. “No one thinks of themselves as a bad driver, yet every 13 minutes, someone dies on America’s roads, and the nation seems complacent about these preventable tragedies.”