A Deluge of Dead Drugged Drivers

Here’s your crazy stat of the day :

According to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) report released Tuesday, one-third of all drug tests on drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents came back positive for drugs ranging from hallucinogens to prescription painkillers last year.

According the article in USA Today , the NHTSA analysis doesn’t address whether the drugs were at levels that would impair driving. I wonder if it might not be causation (i.e., impaired drivers cause the accidents) but rather a simple correlation between dead drivers and drugged drivers.

In other words, maybe there is always a lot of people in people in America that are drugged up and we don’t notice it until we have reason to test them (e.g., after they’ve died in a car accident). That would certainly explain a lot of what goes on in our country.

(Via: TitusOneNine )