DRUNK
DRIVING
Forty percent of fatal crashes in 2003 were alcohol-related. Fatalities in
those crashes numbered 17,013.41
The percentage of drunk drivers is
highest at ages 21-24 (32 percent), followed by ages 25-34 (27 percent) and ages
35-44 (24 percent).42
In 2003, drivers with illegal Blood Alcohol Content
(BAC) levels were 9 times more likely to have a prior Driving-While-Impaired
conviction than were drivers with no BAC.43
Twenty-one percent of
children (ages 0-14) who were killed in traffic crashes were killed in
alcohol-related crashes.44
Driving while intoxicated was the most serious
offense of which 17 percent of adults on probation in 2003 had been
convicted.45
41 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (2004). Traffic
Safety Facts 2003. Washington, DC: NHTSA, U.S. Department of
Transportation. Online:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2003/809761.pdf.
42
Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 Glaze, Lauren and Seri
Palla. (2004). Probation and Parole in the United States, 2003.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Online: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ppus03.pdf.
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