IIDs have reduced repeat offenses nationwide to the tune of 67 percent and decreased drunk driving deaths by 15 percent, the 2018 data report from MADD revealed. Ignition interlock devices keep those with a pattern of drunk driving off the road while impaired. Drunk driving is still the second highest cause of death on Texas highways. In fact, drunk driving fatalities are down 8.5 percent since the 2015 law went into effect, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Texas’ leading rank isn’t unnoticed by anti-drunk driving advocates who went to battle to pass an all-offender ignition interlock law in 2015. California, the state with the second highest rate of drunk driving deaths, had about 10,300 impaired driving deaths during the same time period. For comparison, about 13,550 people live in all of Texas’ Callahan County. From 2003 through 2012, 13,138 people were killed in incidents involving a drunk driver, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Texas has the highest rate of drunk-driving-related deaths in the country. Unfortunately, Brad and Shea Frazier were two of thousands of victims who die in impaired driving-related crashes in Texas each year. Lab reports showed that the driver whose vehicle collided with the SUV was driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) twice the legal limit and tested positive for having used marijuana and cocaine. The vehicle flipped, killing the parents. A southeastern Texas firefighter, his wife and two daughters - ages 2 years and 5 weeks - were travelling down a Texas highway in May 2015 when their SUV was struck from behind.

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