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Continued from page 1 while intoxicated (DWI related -The only more effective teat DWI driven wen MM tor 1993;
who keen on ion of legislators and fatalities occurred in rural areas of would be to draw and test the indi- six mor than in 1994. baqb "Teach them, iteach tim. The
take E6PonEB.oL. for torsandethe state. For each of the years vidoar’s blood," he concluded.
responsib5eormakin8m 1992-1995, at least 59 percent of Merkel pointed out tha the le
ur thahPcea drpkd. the DWI related fatalities occurred definition of inioxication is . less than in 1994. ATPieventative mWanw can ba dincidents
Merkel noimed out ’ on roads in rural areas of the state, blood-alcohol level of .10 percent «Twenty-one twenty-year-old undertaken on the community enforced.
%id^7in«L«i effort, on In addition, 38 percent of all "This percentage can be decep- DWI driven were killed in 1995, level as weil “There
JKSZES: ruraifatalaccidentetnvolvedDwi tive though,” Merkel stated. “You live lew than in 1994. dwi bareness proguma an melwaa
el. alcohol related wrident, are ootBftnd to the percent of all have to take into consideration These figures show that while one way for___" :
EtlAlloriem statewide fatal accidents involving other external factors such as body the number of teenage deaths due bat the problem of teens and alco- Merkel said.
“AkoboiI continues to be a sig- DWL K , t , weight and tolerance,” he noted. to DWI related accidents to hoi. The Gulf Coast EMS DWI- toolchese
nificantcontributor to traffic fat And the problem of alcohol These "external" factors are decreasing for older teens, it is AwarenessProgram was iastigat- being provi
ities and accidents in Texas” related accidents continues to especially significant in relation to increasing for younger teens. ad in 1991 and became an estab- less,” ha ecu
noted James R. Wilson, director of affect those it shouldn’t—driven teens and alcohol. In Brazoria County, there were lished rvmitoieu in April of 1992. “And that
the Texas Department of Public under the age of. , , , "When you re dealing with eleven fatal traffic accidents quickly growing into fourteen doing here it
Safety. The Texas DPS reported that of teenagers and alcohol, there are involving DWI reported in 1995. agencies. eluded. "W
In its 1995 Motor Vehicle the 615 DWI drivers killed in rural three main pointe to consider,” Of those victims, two were under The coalition's goal is to target drinks and di
Traffic Accidents Report, the accidents in 1995, 71 were under Merkel explained. the age of 21. Conversely, there all ages with preventive education hold the met
Texas DPS stated that during the age of 21, accounting for 11.5 “Number one, they are more at were no victim fatalities between for preschool and elementary chil- hol to min
1995, 35.9 percent of all traffic percent of the total number of vic- risk due to a limited tolerance or the ages of 21 and 30 that year. dren, programs for junior and declared,
fatalities were reported to have tims. That number increased to experience with alcohol,” Merkel “If statistically we are not reach- senior high drivers, and programs “Laws are
hern .Irnhnl rrl.tcd since 1991, 116 for DWI driven between the continued. “Number two, ing these younger teens, we obvi- aimed at DWI offenders. are used," M
between 35 9 and 4116 of «H f»ml- ages of 21-25, who accounted for teenagers typically have more ously need to focus our efforts Members of the coalition point that state l<
ities have been alcohol related. 18.9 percent of the total killed in undeveloped bodies which can towards more preventative educa- out that although the project will stiffer, but 11
These statistics show that the rural accidents in 1995. also result in a lesser tolerance for tion for this group,” Merkel said. take years to develop, if only 10 not the most
percentage of alcohol related "We’ve taken a very strong alcohol. And finally, teenagers In the case of teens and drinking percent of DWI deaths and ing with th
fatalities has remained fairly con- stance on DWI offenses here in are more inexperienced drivers as and driving, Merkel feels that edu- injuries in the Gulf Coast area can issue," he co
slant over the past five years with Brazoria County,” Merkel said. well,” he noted. cation has to come prior to experi- be prevented, each year (using “In additit
the total number of traffic fatali- "We are the soul location for the “These three factors combined ence. 1991 statistics) over $4,000,000 in think that th
ties decreasing slightly from the intoxilyzer machine in the county place teenagers in an especially “It’s much better to learn in income will be saved, 650 persons lives in plac
record high of 4,701 killed in with five trained intoxilyzer oper- dangerous position when they mix advance that the stove is hot and will not be injured and 26 people these laws w
1981, to the 3,172 killed in 1995. ators on duty,” he continued. alcohol with driving,” Merkel con- never touch it, than it is to learn by will not lose their lives due to community li
“Clearly there has been This particular intoxication test eluded. experience—and to have to live drinking and driving. In other words, by rewarding
improvement due to such factors is key since the intoxilyzer results Statewide, DWI driver fatalities the rest of your life scarred from And there is more than one way teens for obeying the laws govern-
as anti-DWI programs along with are imperative for making a DWI under the age of 21 totaled 110, touching that hot stove,” Merkel to “lose a life” in a DWI related ing the use of alcohol, parents and
other initiatives such as seat belt charge stick, accounting for 10.9 percent of the said. accident. For teenagers like the communities alike may prevent
and helmet laws,” Wilson noted. “Without intoxilyzer or blood total 1,012 victims killed Preventative measures are hailed sixteen-year-old girl who drank, teens from being tempted to break
“Bui there is still a long way to test results, a DWI charge is diffi- Further breakdowns of the Texas as being the most effective way to drove, and survived but was them. . n t,
go,” he concluded. cult at best,” Merkel noted. “A DPS report totals show even more combat the problem. responsible for the death of anoth- “An ounce of preventiom to
in fact, though the recent Texas charge of public intoxication, disturbing facts: And, according to Dr. Joan er person, there may be another worth a pound of cure,” Merkel
DPS statistics show that the inci- which carries very little penalty •Three sixteen-year-old DWI Shook, a member of the kind of “death" involved—the quoted. “Especially when that
dents of alcohol related traffic when compared to a DWI charge, drivers killed in 1995, only one EMS/Harris County Medical “death” of their freedom. ounce of prevention could mean
accidents statewide is on the is the best we can do without ver- less than in 1994. Society, preventative measures According to News Two the saving of even one teenage life
decline, the problem is still grow- ifiable test results,” he continued. ‘Eleven seventeen-year-old DWI begin at home. Houston, the sixteen-year-old girl in a DWI related accident,”
ing in more rural areas. "The intoxilyzer is one of the drivers were killed in 1995, four “The number one thing that responsible for the death of Merkel concluded.
According to the Texas DPS’s most effective and the least intro- more than in 1994. needs to happen is that parents Mariah Gomez may be tried as an
report, 62 percent of the driving sive ways of identifying intoxicat- •Twenty-one eighteen-year-old need to take responsibility for adult and charged with vehicular
ed drivers,” Merkel explained.
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Schwind, Jim & Wootton, Wade. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 64, Ed. 1 Monday, March 17, 1997, newspaper, March 17, 1997; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1600935/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.