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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (Bill Swan)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Alcohol-related accidents (what does that mean?)
Message-ID: <582@sigma.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 22:30:53 EST
Article-I.D.: sigma.582
Posted: Thu Jan  9 22:30:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 07:36:58 EST
References: <127@rruxp.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA
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Keywords: deception
Summary: 

In article <127@rruxp.UUCP> cct@rruxp.UUCP (C Todd) writes:
>The government, news media, etc. have been discussing the percentage
>of "alcohol-related" auto accidents a lot lately.  Does anyone
>know the definition of "alcohol-related" that is being used
>when these statistics are compiled?

Yeah. It's like anything else that it's faddish to rail against: it means 
that alcohol was "involved" in the accident. It doesn't have to be a
contributing factor, it merely needs to be there to be counted.

(Save your flames, I do _not_ support drunken driving!)
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill