Statistics

Drunk Driving Statistics:

  • Among drivers killed in fatal crashes, 30% have BACs of 0.08% or greater.
  • Drivers with prior driving while impaired (DWI) convictions: Among drivers involved in fatal crashes, those with BAC levels of 0.08% or higher were eight times more likely to have a prior conviction for DWI than were drivers who had not consumed alcohol.
  • At all levels of BAC, the risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people than for older people.7 In 2006, 19% of drivers ages 16 to 20 who died in motor vehicle crashes had been drinking alcohol.
  • Of the 1,746 traffic fatalities among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2006, about one out of every six (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.
  • On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes.
  • 75 percent of drunk drivers whose licenses are suspended continue to drive.
  • About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives
  • A first time drunk driving offender on average has driven drunk 87 times prior to being arrested.
  • Alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion in 2000, including $51.1 billion in monetary costs and an estimated $63.2 billion in quality of life losses. People other than the drinking driver paid $71.6 billion of the alcohol-related crash bill, which is 63 percent of the total cost of these crashes.
  • In 2001, more than half a million people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one person injured every minute.
  • 31.7% of all traffic fatalities included alcohol impaired drivers.
  • The 13,470 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities in 2006 were almost the same as compared to 13,451 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities reported in 1996. Ten years of progress?

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