Drugs of abuse and fatal automobile accidents.

Routine drug testing of traffic fatalities has shown that about 21% of all victims have controlled, illegal substances in their body at the time of the incident. Although we cannot establish a relationship between drug levels and impairment of driving ability, the presence of these drugs in the body is per se evidence of an illegal act. This, with the potential that these drugs have for impairing driving ability, should justify administrative revocation of the driver's license. Current law exists in most states for such action.