Every day, Americans hear, read or see news reports, then react with horror to war, famine, air crashes, hurricanes and other major calamities and natural disasters. Yet one of the most costly and horrific travesties in our society continues year after year without the unified and sustained outrage it merits, in part because it occurs in small increments which add up. Victims can find a lawyer with Adler & Associates to fight back.

They'll be fighting the travesty of drunk driving accidents, which maim and kill thousands of innocent people every month and every year.

Already as of early June 2009, America has had more than 5,000 deaths this year caused by drunk driving accidents. Though the nation's alcohol-related fatalities have declined since 26,000 died in this way in 1982, around a third of all traffic deaths are still due to drunk driving, and up to 15,000 drunk driving deaths are expected by this year's end.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) reports that, on average, an American is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes. MADD also estimates that about 30 per cent of all Americans will be involved in a drunk driving accident in their lifetime.

In Harris County, Texas, drunk driving has become what District Attorney Pat Lykos calls a "pandemic plague." Home to Houston and 3.9 million residents, Harris County has had 10,000 annual DWI cases filed. And for the year 2006, the county had 232 alcohol-related traffic deaths and 203 traffic deaths in which a driver was legally intoxicated.

A recent report by the Houston/Harris County Office of Drug Policy indicates that 60 per cent of all traffic fatalities in the county are caused by drunk drivers. It also found that Harris County had the most drunk driving fatalities per capita of any large county in the United States. (With 3.9 million residents, Harris County ranks behind only Los Angeles and Cook counties in population.)

Law enforcement authorities and other officials have mixed opinions on how to tackle the problem. Some argue that first-time offenders should be diverted to rehabilitation programs rather than serving jail time. Others emphasize that things have improved but more focus on "designated drivers" is needed to combat the Houston drunk driving toll.

Others believe it's time to get tough with any and all people who make the choice to drink and then drive, thereby endangering innocent occupants of others vehicles, as well as pedestrians. These believers include the personal injury lawyers, auto accident attorneys, car accident lawyers and drunk driving lawyers with Jim S. Adler & Associates.

The longtime Texas personal injury law firm has carved a place in legal history with its decades of support for those who were injured by drunk drivers or by other means. Adler drunk driving lawyers have fought for their clients' legal right to full and fair financial compensation for medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering after enduring an accident caused by a drunk driver.

If you or a loved one has been harmed by a drunk driver in Harris County or elsewhere, submit the free case evaluation form on this website to alert a personal injury lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates. Then get the legal help you need to gain the monetary recovery to which you are legally entitled. The only way to reduce the drunk driving plague is to fight it on all fronts.



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