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Vehicles with most drunk drivers

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by taco57, Mar 13, 2022.

  1. Mar 13, 2022 at 4:46 AM
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    taco57

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    Kevins60

    Kevins60 axle wrap tells me my rear brakes are working

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    Interesting…. 7 of the 10 are pickup trucks but the most popular truck in America, the Ford F series didn’t make the list. Hmmm.
     
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  3. Mar 13, 2022 at 5:37 AM
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    I think it’s an age/gender thing. Young men buy trucks and often make poor decisions about drinking and driving.
     
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  4. Mar 13, 2022 at 5:55 AM
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    taco57

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    Definitely would apply to WRX drivers.
     
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    PennSilverTaco

    PennSilverTaco Encyclopedia of useless information...

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    I know a guy who got a DUI in his 2007 Tacoma maybe five years ago...?

    I got hit in my Tacoma by a drunk driver in a 2002 Mercedes E320.
     
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    amyracecar

    amyracecar suck it up buttercup

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    Based on what I see, where I live - this looks about right . . .
     
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    Dodge RAM. And where is the F150??
     
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    batacoma

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    Most charged DUIs probably occur during the hours 22:00 and 04:00.
     
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    batacoma

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    Red Alert

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    Don't know how they left the paddy wagon off the list.

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    Tuesday!

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    LOL! The Dodge Ram 2500 tops the list. Probably because they are trying to drown their sorrows after figuring out the bought a POS.
     
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    Not too many college students driving paddy wagons. I've seen many college age people driving WRXs, not a lot of Ram 2500s, but I've seen a few.

    I have had a drunk pedestrian climb up on my work truck and promptly go to sleep, had to call the cops because who knows what they are on. They got taken away in an ambulance for a phsych evaluation.
     
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    stevesnj

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    I was almost killed by a drunk driver and driving a Tacoma saved my life. There's a flip side of the coin huh :)
     
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    Jase

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    Well shit. My daily is an ‘02 WRX, to be replaced by the Tacoma soon(ish).
    Guess I’m high risk.
     
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    Rock Lobster

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    I didn't know that there were 3 percent of Ford Contours on the road. So if 3 percent of DUIs happen in a Contour and 2 percent of Americans have admitted to driving drunk, that's 138000 possible drunk Contours.

    Pretty good odds that every Contour you see is shitfaced. :cookiemonster:
     
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    Kevins60

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    :rofl:
     
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  17. Mar 14, 2022 at 4:32 AM
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    Kevins60

    Kevins60 axle wrap tells me my rear brakes are working

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    My current theory is 7 out of 10 are pickup trucks because the bed is a convenient place to toss your empties.
     
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    Cudgel

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    Hard to drive a broken down wreck.
     
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    jbrandt

    jbrandt Made you look

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    Borracho Loco

    Borracho Loco My truck identifies as a Prius.

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    Oh look, another mod....
    You misunderstand. They are saying that out of 100 Ford Contours on the road: 2.92% of them have a prior DUI violation.
     

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