EDITORIAL
Holiday season cheer has its liquor limits

We are now fully launched on the season of office Christmas parties and police checkpoints. So go easy on the drinks during these festivities if you plan to get behind the steering wheel.

Certainly, no one wants a DUI on his driving record. But more importantly, we don't want drunk drivers wreaking havoc on the roads.

If you don't think drunk driving is a big deal, ask the families of folks who died in alcohol-related traffic accidents in Hawai'i this year. Any traffic death represents an enormous blow; those that involve alcohol are painful in yet another way because they are often so perfectly preventable.

Simply give the car keys to someone who has not been drinking; resolve to celebrate the season with something other than alcohol or save your holiday toasts for those times you are safely tucked into your own home.

The list of those whose traffic deaths or injuries were related to alcohol is far too long already.

Resolve not to add to that list this holiday season.