Driving While Under The Influence Of Alcohol

HERE ARE SOME STATISTICS ABOUT INCIDENTS INVOLVING IMPARED DRIVING?

According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, "MADD,"in the years from 2000 - 2005:
· In 2002, an estimated 17,419 people DIED in alcohol-related traffic crashes-an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constituted 41 percent of the 42, 815 total traffic fatalities ;
· 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;
· Approximately 18 million Americans - 8.5 percent of the population - meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or alcoholism ;
· About three in every ten 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;
· Thirty-two percent of drivers 21 - 24 years old involved in fatal crashes were intoxicated, followed by ages 25 - 34 (27 percent) and 35 - 44 (24 percent) ;
· In the past decade, four times as many Americans died in drunk driving crashes as were killed in the Vietnam War;
· Drunk driving is the nation's worst frequently committed violent crime.

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