In 2003, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, announced that the NUMBER ONE unintentional cause of death among individuals ages 1-64 was Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents. According to the National Traffic Safety Administration and The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006: Minnesota had 493 deaths from automobile crashes and 31% of those involved a driver who was legally intoxicated or drunk.
In Minnesota a driver is legally intoxicated or drunk when:
Minnesota allows a Judge or Jury to consider punitive damages, or in other words, to punish the impaired driver if there is evidence that the accident was caused by a driver: