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November 28, 2005

Report: R.I. deadliest state for impaired driving

Rhode Island ranked as the deadliest state for impaired driving last year, according to a list released today by the National Safety Council and a physicians' safety group called End Needless Death on Our Roadways.

The Ocean State received that ranking because 50.6 percent of traffic fatalities here last year were alcohol related, according to the groups' report.
Rhode Island was among 13 states that for two years in a row made the groups' Fatal Fifteen list -- states in which 41 percent or more of all traffic fatalities are alcohol related.

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