According to the most recent statistics for 2008, 11,773 people were killed across the country in alcohol related car crashes. This represents a 9.7 percent decrease from 2007 in alcohol impaired driving fatalities. A DUI lawyer Tampa, Florida credits this drop in alcohol related fatalities to a number of things: the failing economy in which people do not have as much discretionary spending money for things such as alcohol; tougher repeat offender laws in many states and many states most recent implementation of a new program in which younger adults convicted of DUIs are sent to their county morgue or are forced to spend a night in prison as a way of ‘shocking’ them into stopping their dangerous drunken driving behavior. There is currently no official data on if this ‘shock therapy’ is working or not.