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Jacob Owens didn't get a second chance. After a night of drinking, he got into the driver's seat of a car and crashed into a tree. Despite the best efforts of the members of the Mercy San Juan Medical Center trauma unit, he did not survive. He was 21 years old. Many drunken drivers get a second, third, and even hundredth chance — which increases the likelihood that they will cause a fatality. "There is research that says for every time someone is arrested for drunk driving, they had actually driven drunk 200 times before that," Dr. Leon Owens said. Determined to change these lethal odds, Owens dove headfirst into research. He is the director of the Mercy San Juan Medical Center Trauma P