MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Rhode Island state police say a Massachusetts man is charged
with drunken driving after two people were killed in a car he hit while going
the wrong way on a highway.
State police said 24-year-old Joel Norman of Webster is
being held on $100,000 bail after he was arraigned Sunday on charges of drunken
driving resulting in death, and driving to endanger resulting in death. It
isn't known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
Police identified the victims as 21-year-old Tiffany Sical
of Providence, the driver of the car struck by Norman's vehicle, and her
passenger, 23-year-old Bryan Rodriguez-Solis of Central Falls. Family members
say they had a 6-year-old daughter and planned to marry in September.
The crash occurred on Route 6 shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday
near Toby Street in Providence.
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UNITED STATES STILL HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST ROAD ACCIDENT DEATH AND INJURY RATES IN THE WORLD: 34,000 DIE AND 2.5 MILLION INJURED EACH YEAR.
Despite the improvements in road safety, the United States has one of the highest death rates at about 1 person dead per 10,000 people. Unfortunately, only undeveloped countries have higher death rate.
Some states, such as Texas and West Virginia (sorry, WV, despite your tremendous progress in traffic safety, you are still at the top of the worst-death-rate list) have death rates of nearly 1.5 percent, i.e., fifty percent more people die compared to the national death rate.
Approximately 34,000 people are getting killed each year. In the 1950s and 1960s, about 55,000 people used to die on the roads – so, there has been improvement in the number of dead.
However, the number of injured is rising. Roughly 2.5 million are injured (yes, you read it correctly – 2.5 million injured) per year. That is, 1 percent (1%) of the population that is eligible to drive is injured every year.
It is worse than a war zone out there.
So, please be safe and be on the lookout for weaving-through-the-traffic drivers, crazy drivers, reckless drivers, sick drivers, medical-condition drivers, sleepy drivers, negligent drivers, stupid drivers, careless drivers, drunk drivers, speeding drivers, drugged drivers, texting drivers, talking-on-the-phone drivers, looking-at-the-GPS drivers, hurry-hurry drivers, tailgating drivers, upset drivers, eating-while-driving drivers, putting-the-lipstick-on-while-driving drivers, elderly drivers, and so on.