To the editor: In response to the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, in 2020, 11,654 folks had been killed in motorcar crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers. This was 30% of all traffic-related deaths in the usand a 14.3% improve from 2019. Thirty-two deaths per day — one each 45 minutes — contain an alcohol-impaired driver. (“Extend last call to 4 a.m. in California? We’ll drink to that,” editorial, Aug. 30)
That is why I’m extraordinarily offended on the California Legislature for approving final name at 4:00 a.m. for VIPs on the new Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Shockingly, including two hours to final name will put these consuming drivers on the highway simply as first-shift employees are touring to their jobs.
Disgrace on the California lawmakers for folding to the alcohol business and the Intuit Dome, which can now improve their income presumably on the expense of lives.
Ellen Faulk, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Until arriving by chauffeured car or transit, bar patrons consuming alcohol till 4 a.m. in California would have pushed there — and could be leaving — in a non-public auto simply because the work day begins. They’ll mingle with the big mass of personal autos and truck site visitors on our freeways and streets.
One beer, one cocktail or sufficient wine or marijauna will to a point scale back a car operator’s skill to soundly drive.
Everybody believes an individual who’s falling down drunk shouldn’t drive. Sadly, many of the remainder of us who consider we’re average alcohol customers don’t learn up (or consider) the quite a few research proving the extra refined — however actual — risks of “average” consuming and driving.
A number of different international locations have logically enacted complete bans on any consuming and driving.
Mark Davidson, Santa Ana
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To the editor: I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
Final week, two stunning, accountable, proficient younger hockey gamers had been killed by a drunk driver in New Jersey. And also you advocate, in impact, placing extra drunks on the highway by permitting alcohol to be served after 2 a.m.?
We don’t want extra drunks driving and killing harmless folks. I plan to name Gov. Gavin Newsom and beg him to veto this invoice. I urge you to do the identical.
Laura R. Norris, San Diego
