Another one, suspended license, got drunk, and decided to play pinball with the car my fiance was in, causing lifelong injuries.
You can't get away from those. America is just a fun place.
You can't get away from those.
If these tragedies you describe keep happening (as described), and the fault you identified points directly to the problems of American drivers, I find it shocking you suddenly describe it as "this one issue". Either it's as problematic as you described or it's not.
And if one believes that, e.g. self driving cars will do a lot to address it in the next decade, they especially might not want to incur the costs of the alternatives.