Reports from the Marshall Islands say on average, and every four days since January, a drunk driver has caused an accident in the country sending at least one person to Majuro Hospital.
The hospital's adminstrator, Sandy Alfred, says 70 percent of the car accidents that required emergency services were caused by drunk drivers.
The total population of the Marshalls is about 22-thousand, but since the late 1990s there has been a rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the capital's roads, with the latest count at more than 3-thousand.
Mr Alfred says the steady climb in the number of drunk drivers on the roads is a a growing concern.
