Column: Buzzed driving is drunk driving

By Rich Jespersen

HELP Committee

Drunken driving has become a national epidemic. Each year, drunken-driving crashes kill more than 10,000 people in America. The Hill County DUI Task Force is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this holiday season to reach out to all drivers with an important message about this deadly, preventable crime because Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.

Let’s say you go to a holiday party, you stay a few hours and have a few drinks. When it’s time to go, you think to yourself, “I’m fine to drive. I’ve only had a few drinks, and I barely feel b...