Well, bad as drunk driving is, apparently it's not as bad as
bad driving.
This is a copy and paste from
Drive and Stay Alive -- Home Page
In 2003, there were 7,397 serious traffic accidents in the UAE, 873 deaths & over 10,000 injuries. Relative to the number of vehicles on the road, UAE has six times more deaths from road traffic accidents per year than the USA & Europe.
If you remove the deaths caused in Europe and the USA by drunk drivers and assume (this is a huge assumption, and frankly I include it more for amusement than anything else...) that NONE of the deaths in the UAE were caused by
local drunk drivers, then the UAE fares even worse in this comparison.