Although increasing alcohol blood levels relate to an increasing number of traffic accidents there is not a consistent relationship between the average amount of alcohol consumed in the population and the number of traffic accidents.  In France there is a very high amount of alcohol ingested but the number of deaths per amount of alcohol consumed by the population his less than that in the United States.  There are many other factors that relate to alcohol related traffic deaths such as legal limit of blood alcohol for driving, and patterns of alcohol use relative to driving