Arizona: tougher drunk driving laws don’t deter drivers determined to get blasted and kill on the highways

From Phoenix New Times
The number of people killed by drunk drivers in Arizona went down slightly compared to last year — but only because fewer people overall died on state roadways.

As a percentage of the total fatalities, more drunk drivers were responsible for killing people in 2012 than the year before, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Crash Facts annual report released this week.

The rate was already up slightly in 2011 from 2010 following a decrease in 2009, a New Times review of the last five years of reports shows. For injury crashes, the ….MORE