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      I write with dismay in response to “Flurry of Drama in Sag Harbor” (Sunday Styles, June 23), about Justin Timberlake’s arrest in the Hamptons on a charge of driving while drunk.

      The article, while including the particulars of Mr. Timberlake’s arrest, moves quickly to a lighthearted foray into the local community’s reaction to news coverage of the incident.

      It would all be in good fun, of course, if not for the fact that, according to the Department of Transportation, each day in the U.S. an average of 37 people suffer serious accidents because of drunken driving, with alarming numbers revealed in 2022.

      Instead of sharing those sobering figures, we get a local diner’s perspective that the news coverage of the arrest was over the top because Mr. Timberlake had not gotten into an accident.

      That badly misses the point and, with it, The Times badly missed an opportunity to turn a spotlight on the deadly seriousness of drunken driving.

       Brad Snyder

       Menlo Park, Calif.

SNYDER, Brad. Patients Stunned by Their Medical Bills. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/patients-medicalbills.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap. Acesso em: 11 jul. 2024. Adaptado.