Just reading a Scientific American article that claims deaths from alcohol related crashes are under reported nationally. While not characterized as a conspiracy it does suggest the under reporting would tend to reduce the degree of concern associated with this serious problem. That this poor woman was innocently impacted not once but twice, the second ending her life should be a warning cry to the profoundly negative impact of alcohol abuse. Already were hearing the negative impacts of the just opened liquor store in Bethel when more stores were proposed. This is a profound failure of leadership. While toughening penalties for these offenders may produce short term benefits there remains a huge chasm between the connection  on the part of young people to the realities of drinking to the point of impairment and jumping behind the wheel of thousands of pounds of moving metal. When they "wake up" in jail ,their lives and the lives of their innocent victims changed forever  what then?