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Article: Alcohol-related Traffic Deaths Jump on New Year's Eve.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 27, 2006
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Some New Year's predictions are, tragically, very reliable. For example, significantly more people are likely to die in alcohol-related traffic crashes on New Year's Eve than on other mid-week winter evenings.
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Just look at the numbers. A recent analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics shows that, by the time our country finished ringing in the year 2005 (the last year for which data are available), 135 people had died in alcohol-related traffic crashes in the 12-hour span between 6:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve and ...