INFORMATION

WHAT KIND OF STATISTICS ARE AVAILABLE FOR INCIDENTS INVOLVING IMPAIRED DRIVING?

• An estimated 17,274 persons died in alcohol-related traffic crashes - an average of one every 32 minutes;
• About 1,058,990 were injured in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one person injured approximately every 30 seconds. About 30,000.00 people each year will suffer permanent work-related disabilities;
• Every weekday night from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., 1 in 13 drivers is drunk (with a blood alcohol content of .08 or more). Between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekend mornings, 1 in 7 drivers is drunk;
• The 17,274 alcohol-related traffic fatalities in 1995 represent a 24% reduction from the 22,715 alcohol-related fatalities reported in 1985;
• About two in every five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives;
• Alcohol-related crashes cost an estimated $45 billion yearly. An additional $70.5 billion is lost in quality of life due to these crashes;
• The rate of alcohol involvement in fatal crashes is three and one-third times as high at night than as during the day. For all crashes, the alcohol involvement rate is nearly five times as high at night;
• During the period 1982 through 1995, approximately 300,274 persons lost their lives in alcohol-related traffic crashes;
• In the past decade, four times as many Americans died in DUI crashes as were killed in the Vietnam War;
• DUI is the nation's worst frequently committed violent crime.

ARE THERE LONG TERM HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL ABUSE?

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