The Law: D.W.I.s Anonymous

That young man was clocked at 80 m.p.h. before he hit those people. The parents were killed instantly. The youngsters were injured critically. And that young man—it took 35 minutes with a blowtorch to get him off the dashboard.

Almost every person convicted of drunken driving in Phoenix, Ariz., must suffer through this eyewitness account of a Christmas Eve tragedy. The witness was Ernest I. Stewart, a professor of health education at Arizona State University. After he saw the crash, Stewart talked the city's chief magistrate into a new way of sobering drunken drivers, who cause roughly half the nation's auto deaths...

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