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Most car accidents are result of poor infrastructure and human error... Not drunk drivers.
In the US 31% of car fatalities are linked with alcohol consumption. I don't think you can argue that it's negligible.
I doubt that poor infrastructure is causing more than that, and as far as I know there is no magic solution to solve human error (while there is, for drunk driving: don't drink).
Also this conversation was about comparing it to sugar, and I will take a bet and say that sugar causes car accidents, violence and rape much less often than alcohol.