1 in 5 drivers has been drinking (Alcohol Alert!).
1 in 20 drivers is imparied (Alcohol Alert!).
Upwards to 50% of driver fatalities involve alcohol, and at least 38% of these drivers are impaired (Alcohol Alert!).
The estimated annual cost of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents is 27 billion dollars (Alcohol Alert!).
Alcohol is eliminated form the bloodstream at a rate of 0.015 percent per hour (CACRT).
By getting your drivers license you agree to take a breathalizer test (CACRT).
There are approximately 600,000 people injured each year as a result of drunk driving (CACRT).
Drunk drivers are 13 times more likely to casue a fatal crash than sober drivers, particulalry between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., when as many as 25 % of drivers are estimated to have been drinking. Drivers that have been drinking and driving between those to times, cause 60% of the fatal crashes (CACRT).
Over the past decade, four times as many people died in drunk driving collisions than died in Vietnam. (Madd).
During 2004, 16,694 people in 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 Justics, 2004) That's less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-imparied driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005).
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