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NEW YORK - Installing devices in new cars to prevent drunk drivers from starting the engine could prevent 85% of alcohol-related deaths on US roads, according to a new analysis.
Tens of thousands of lives could be saved as well as billions of dollars from injury-related costs.
In South Africa a national survey of transport fatalities conducted at South African medico-legal mortuaries in 2004 found that 50% of drivers who died in road traffic collisions tested positive for alcohol. It did not give data on how many were over the then legal limit.
