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Alcohol-impaired drivers got behind the wheel of a car about million times in , according to the CDC.
Almost twice as many alcohol-related and fatal car crashes occur during the weekend, according to NHTSA. In , there were four male, alcohol-impaired drivers for every one female alcohol-impaired driver out on the road, says NHTSA. Drunk Driving Fatalities by State Here are the number of people who died in car crashes with alcohol-impaired drivers from to , according to the most recent data from the CDC.
Was this article helpful? Share your feedback. Send feedback to the editorial team. Rate this Article. Thank You for your feedback! In , 10, people were killed in a drunk driving crash accounting for 29 percent of the total traffic fatalities. For the second year in a row, the proportion of drunk driving fatalities is the lowest recorded since record keeping began in Over the past decade drunk driving fatalities fell two percent from 10, in according to the latest statistics.
Since Responsibility. In , the proportion of drunk driving fatalities in 28 states and DC were below the national threshold, and from to alcohol-impaired driving fatalities decreased in 33 states and DC. We are encouraged by the progress reported by NHTSA today but there is still more work to be done to keep our roads free from drunk drivers.
Benjamin R. Nordstrom, M. Named New Executive Director of Responsibility. The State of Drunk Driving in the U. Read More. Drunk Driving. Every day, about 28 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that's one person every 52 minutes. In , these deaths reached the lowest percentage since when NHTSA started reporting alcohol data — but still 10, people lost their lives. These deaths were all preventable. Alcohol is a substance that reduces the function of the brain, impairing thinking, reasoning and muscle coordination.
All these abilities are essential to operating a vehicle safely. Alcohol is absorbed directly through the walls of the stomach and small intestine. Then it passes into the bloodstream where it accumulates until it is metabolized by the liver. A person's alcohol level is measured by the weight of the alcohol in a certain volume of blood. At a BAC of. However, even a small amount of alcohol can affect driving ability. In , there were 1, people killed in alcohol-related crashes where a driver had a BAC of.
Driving after drinking is deadly. Yet it still continues to happen across the United States. If you drive while impaired, you could get arrested, or worse — be involved in a traffic crash that causes serious injury or death. Approximately one-third of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers with BACs of. In , there were 10, people killed in these preventable crashes. In fact, on average over the year period from , more than 10, people died every year in drunk-driving crashes.
Car crashes are a leading cause of death for teens, and about a quarter of those crashes involve an underage drinking driver. To reduce alcohol-related fatal crashes among youth, all states have adopted a minimum legal drinking age of NHTSA estimates that minimum-drinking-age laws have saved 31, lives from to
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