This is Governor Mike Huckabee with a comment from my corner of the Capitol. As a former pastor, I've dealt with the effects of drunk driving. There was a young man in my church who got drunk and ran into an 18-wheeler. Police couldn't tell if the vehicle was a car or a pickup truck until they traced it using what was left of the license plate.
Parents blame themselves for letting their children have the keys to the car.
Survivors deal not only with their injuries but the grief at losing a friend and the guilt that comes from being spared. In 1996, there were 228 people killed in Arkansas in alcohol-related crashes. More than 3,700 were injured. About two in five Americans will be involved in accidents involving alcohol at some point in their lives. We'll never prevent all drunk driving deaths, but we can certainly reduce them.