Kurt Gregory Erickson is president and chief executive of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program.
Much attention has been given to the troubling increase in the number of homicides in the city, but we also need to examine the equally troubling increase in the number of drunken-driving deaths in the District.
Data recently released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that while alcohol-related traffic fatalities decreased
in the United States last year, these same and completely preventable deaths increased in the District. In fact, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration figures show that drunken-driving deaths in the District increased by 33 percent in 2017.
