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IN SPORTS, there’s an old ex-
pression that says ‘‘statistics are
for losers’’.

In B.C., there’s one driving
statistic which, in one way or
another, makes losers of us all ...
the drinking driver is still the
number one killer in B.C.

Figures compiled by the Ministry
of Transportation and Highways
for 1985 show that, us in previous
years, alcohol was the biggest
single factor in traffic deaths. In
B.C. alone, 188 people (one out of
every three killed on the roads) lost
their lives as drivers, passengers,
pedestrians or cyclists because
someone took the gamble of drink-
ing and driving.

The consequences of drinking
and driving continue to be
especially devastating for the
young. Half of the people killed or
injured are under 30. Those in
their twenties run the greatest risk.

The pattern of drinking driving
crashes has remained much the
same over the past few years. Most
injuries and fatalities occur on the

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weekends in the six-hour period
between 9 p.m, and 3 a.m,

In fact, more people are hurt or
killed in alcohol-related incidents
in the hour from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday than
at any other time of the week.

One way or another, we all pay
for drinking and driving. Those
killed or injured, along with their
friends and relatives, pay the big-
gest price of all, while the rest of
us are hit in the pocketbook. In-
cluding enforcement, legal, medi-
cal and insurance charges, the
Ministry of Attorney General
calculates the yearly price tag in
B.C. at more than $130 million.

Teamwork, however, is making
a difference. The police continue
their road blocks at all hours of
the day and night.

Officers are backed up by some
of the toughest laws in North
America, which get drinking

drivers off the road and, in many .

instances, behind bars. ICBC
works with students and_ traffic
safety committees across the pro-
vince in a coordinated effort to

with

reduce accidents in their com-
munities.

The CounterAttack Blitzes

_ combine enforcement, education,

and the efforts of your communi-
ty’s traffic safety committee and
the media. The effort to get as
many people as possible aware and
involved has brought drinking and
driving in the Christmas and New
Year’s period down over 300 per
cent since the campaigns started in
1977,

The appeal that the 1986
Christmas CounterAttack makes is
a simple and personal one — to
consider the game plan that can
keep you or others out of the cold
Statistics that number the injured
and the dead.

You can choose not to drink. If
you drink, you can choose not to
drive. You can choose not to ride
with a drinking driver, and you
can choose not io Jet a friend drive
while impaired.

Those choices alone could be
your biggest contribution towards
ensuring a winning season on the
road for everyone this year.

35 - Wednesday, December 17, 1986 - North Shore News

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