Impaired Driving
Have you been in an accident? A drunk driver slammed into your vehicle! Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and non-fatally injured someone every two minutes. Nearly three quarters of those convicted of driving while impaired are either frequent heavy drinkers (alcohol abusers) or alcohol dependent. Among drivers involved in fatal crashes, those with BAC levels of 0.08% or higher were nine times more likely to have a prior conviction for driving while impaired (DWI) than were drivers who had not consumed alcohol.
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Types of Impaired Driving:
- Alcohol Intoxicated
- Drug Induced
- Prescribed Medicine
- Under Age DUI
- DUI & DWI
Statistics About Alcohol Related Vehicle Crashes:
During 2004, 16,694 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2005).
In 2004, about 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice, 2004). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005).
Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al. 2003).
More than two-thirds of child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-related crashes during 1997–2002 were riding with the drinking driver; only 32% of them were properly restrained at the time of the crash (Shults 2004).
Male drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes are almost twice as likely as female drivers to be intoxicated with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or greater. A BAC of 0.08% is equal to or greater than the legal limit in most states. At all levels of blood alcohol concentration, the risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people than for older people.
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