Why do drunk drivers always survive?

[Paradiseequeen]

I never understood why drunk drivers always survive and the families are left without their loved ones.

[Chazmatazz269]

They don’t “always”.
There is a theory that suggests that people who are aware of the incoming hazards flex and constrict in ways that might actually be detrimental. Drunks, however, either don’t react at all or react much later than normal and survive the effects of collision by being more pliable. I don’t think there is empirical evidence to support this, but given anecdotal evidence, worth recognizing.

[WindAtMyBack]

I can only speculate.

If that's true, it might be because the person at fault is far more likely to hit head-on. But the car being hit can be a side impact. Running a read light is likely to happen that way.

The drunk is also more relaxed, so they don't get broken up as badly.

[KostasKouvalis]

That's what I was thinking, kind of like Scarface being so jacked up on cocaine that the bullets didn't even effect him, so I'm wondering if being drunk somehow effects your body/adrenaline in such a way that you become impervious to injury.

[WindAtMyBack]

@KostasKouvalis
I think it's actually true about drunks. Being relaxed reduces injuries.

On the other hand, cocaine might increase injuries in a car crash since it does the opposite of relaxing people. If someone who is pumped up on coke or PCP gets shot, that is a completely different kind of injury than a car crash. It's a puncture injury, not a crushing injury. Plus a car crash does WAAAAY more damage than a bullet. That's pure physics.

[XXblack88]

Drunk drivers' reaction to impact is slower so their body is more relaxed casing less damage. When you tense up your body going to take more damage from the impact.

[call_me_scar]

They don't always survive but I heard a few survive because when the crash happens they aren't as tensed up they are more flexible able to move with the crash not hurting themselves as badly but who knows how true that is

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah like my dad, Laura Bush and the guy from Motley Crue. I'm certain there's a scientific explanation, and I'd like to know what it is as well

[DARKCLOUD1945X]

Mostly they are so drunk they do not tighten up they are relaxed and flexible not like normal people who brace for the crash.

[OddBeMe]

Drivers survive more often because they’re controling the car and maneuver subconsciously to save their side rather than passengers.

[shortster]

Typically they have the engine to absorb most of the collision. Whereas the other car is hit in a less protected part of the car.

[gorydetails]

Well they don’t ALWAYS survive.

[Zayed_]

To live with guilt