To the editor: In keeping with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, in 2020, 11,654 individuals have been killed in motorcar crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers. This was 30% of all traffic-related deaths in the united statesand a 14.3% enhance from 2019. Thirty-two deaths per day — one each 45 minutes — contain an alcohol-impaired driver. (“Prolong final name to 4 a.m. in California? We’ll drink to that,” editorial, Aug. 30)
This is the reason I’m extraordinarily offended on the California Legislature for approving final name at 4:00 a.m. for VIPs on the new Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Shockingly, including two hours to final name will put these ingesting drivers on the highway simply as first-shift staff are touring to their jobs.
Disgrace on the California lawmakers for folding to the alcohol trade and the Intuit Dome, which is able to now enhance their earnings presumably on the expense of lives.
Ellen Faulk, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Except arriving by chauffeured automobile or transit, bar patrons ingesting alcohol till 4 a.m. in California would have pushed there — and could be leaving — in a personal auto simply because the work day begins. They’ll mingle with the big mass of personal autos and truck visitors on our freeways and streets.
One beer, one cocktail or sufficient wine or marijauna will to a point scale back a automobile operator’s means to soundly drive.
Everybody believes an individual who’s falling down drunk shouldn’t drive. Sadly, a lot of the remainder of us who consider we’re average alcohol shoppers don’t learn up (or consider) the quite a few research proving the extra delicate — however actual — risks of “average” ingesting and driving.
A number of different nations have logically enacted complete bans on any ingesting and driving.
Mark Davidson, Santa Ana
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To the editor: I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
Final week, two stunning, accountable, proficient younger hockey gamers have been killed by a drunk driver in New Jersey. And also you advocate, in impact, placing extra drunks on the highway by permitting alcohol to be served after 2 a.m.?
We don’t want extra drunks driving and killing harmless individuals. I plan to name Gov. Gavin Newsom and beg him to veto this invoice. I urge you to do the identical.
Laura R. Norris, San Diego
