This story in today’s Brisbane Times on the staggering rise in drunken accidents reminded me of the US finding in Levitt and Dubner’s SuperFreakonomics that:

Doing the math, you find that, on a per-mile basis, a drunk walker is eight times more likely to get killed than a drunk driver.

My impression is that a lot of drunk walking would be avoided if it were easier to get a taxi, and the Government should consider deregulating the industry, as argued in my previous post:

Time for taxi industry deregulation?