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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022, 01:36:30 AM CDT
Subject: 4-11-22 Traffic-safety Question for Utah DPS Rep. Roden
From former Texas Department of Public Safety full-time staff member, Nebraska native, and current Salt Lake County (UT) resident John Kevin McMillan.
My current home address ever since February 14, 2022:
6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.
My home phone: (801) 942-2122.
My cell phone number ever since August of 2019: (512) 993-7305.
April 11, 2022
Dear Utah Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Cameron Roden,
Thank you again for your prompt and friendly reply notes to me in recent weeks.
Do you or any of your Utah DPS colleagues or other state government colleagues of yours have any reaction to the following currently-copyrighted online factual statement from "Alcohol.org" that I obtained this month during my leisuretime?
This is what I myself posted online this month in regard that online report:
A motor-vehicle alcohol-related traffic-safety ranking of U.S. states this year that was based on the most recent available information, from 2017, may possibly reflect the comparatively low percentage of motorists in this refreshingly wholesome Beehive State who are driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.
The factual source on this is "Alcohol.org", a copyright-2022 website provided by Recovery Brands, LLC, a subsidiary of American Addiction Centers, Inc. (AAC). According to this website, "AAC is a leading provider of both residential and outpatient addiction treatment services."
The apparently authoritative blog for which the link is provided below (last item) contains the following very noteworthy statement:
"Based on the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities per 100k (100,000) people, (Utah's bordering state of) Wyoming had the highest rate of fatalities in the U.S., with a rate of 7.6. South Carolina and North Dakota took second and third place, both with an average rate of 6.3 and 6.1, respectively.
"New Jersey had the fewest alcohol-impaired driving fatalities with a rate of 1.4 per 100k people. Minnesota and New York tied for second on this metric with a rate 1.5 and UTAH PLACED THIRD WITH 1.7 (UPPER-CASED by myself, John Kevin McMillan of Salt Lake County, Utah, FOR EMPHASIS)."
The bordering state of New Mexico, by contrast, had an alcohol-impaired motor-vehicle-driving fatalities rate of 5.8---more than three times the rate of Utah. The bordering state of Idaho had an alcohol-impaired motor-vehicle-driving fatalities rate of 3.5, more than twice the rate of Utah. The Utah-bordering states of Colorado and Nevada each had respective alcohol-impaired motor-vehicle-driving fatalities rates of 3.2 and 3---each nearly twice the rate of Utah.
In the category of driving fatalities per 100,000 residents that involved a motorist under the influence of alcohol who was age 20 or younger, UTAH HAD THE THIRD-LOWEST RATE OF ANY U.S. STATE: 0.5 PER 100,000 RESIDENTS.
Neighboring states to Utah and their comparable per-capita incidence of driving fatalities per 100,000 residents that involved a motorist under the influence of alcohol who was age 20 or younger are:
Wyoming, 2.5---five times the rate of Utah;
New Mexico, 2.1---more than four times the rate of Utah;
Colorado, 1.1---more than twice the rate of Utah;
Idaho, 1 --- twice the fatality rate of Utah; and
Nevada, 0.9, nearly twice the fatality rate of Utah.
John Kevin McMillan
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