Mandatory DUI License Suspension Laws

Worldwide, approximately 50.0 percent of all fatal automobile accidents are due to the influence of alcohol consumption by the drivers involved in such accidents. The risk of being involved in an automobile traffic accident increases geometrically with rises in the blood alcohol count of the vehicle operator. Driving while under the influence of alcohol continues to be a major problem in the United States. As an example, total driving while under the influence of alcohol arrests increased by 15.2 percent from 1979 to 1988, while the population was increasing 9.3 percent (Bureau of the Census, 1993, p. 8; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1993, p. 104). From 1988 to 1992, however, arrests for driving while under the influence of alcohol declined by 5.3 percent.

One suggested solution for the problem of drunk driving offenders is the imposition of stiff penalt

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ducted by official entities (Legge, 1991, p. 64). In actuality, according to this argument, drunken driving offenders may well be individuals with unique problems and needs that have contributed to the development of these behaviors (Wilson & Mann, 1995, p. 89). While not all drunken driving offenders are alcoholics, many, if not most, may have psychological problems that are the underlying causes of their drunken driving behaviors (Wilson, 1992, p. 335). Few, if any, automobile accidents occur when driver intoxication is the only identified causal factor (Evans, 1996, p. 77). In most instances, excessive speed, recklessness, and other causal factors are also involved. It can be reasonably argued; however, that these other causal factors might not have occurred or that the occurrence of these other causal factors might not have had as seriously detrimental results, had not driver intoxication also been present. What has been observed is that driver intoxication is present in a disproportionate number of automobile accidents and that this disproportion tends to increase with the severity of the accident (Evans, 1996, p. 80). The single vehicle accident accounts for a majority of all motor vehicle deaths (National Safety Coun
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