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In fact, on average over the 10-year period from 2013-2022, about 11,000 people died every year in drunk-driving crashes. In every state, it’s illegal to drive drunk, yet one person was killed in a drunk-driving crash every 39 minutes in the United States in 2022.
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3 sty 2024 · Drunk Driving Statistics by Age. In 2021, the 21-to-24-year-old age group and the 25-to-34-year-old age group had the highest percentages of drunk drivers involved in fatal crashes (27%...
27 sie 2024 · Comparing historical drunk driving statistics to current statistics helps assess the efficacy of prevention methods implemented over the years. In this article, we’ll break down the statistics to better understand drunk driving deaths in the U.S., which states have the most drunk driving incidents, and the economic and societal costs of drunk ...
17 sty 2018 · All age groups experienced a decline from 2006 to 2014 in the rate per 10,000 of respondents reporting at least one incident of DWI in the previous 30 days, with the steepest declines among the youngest age groups (see Figure A-3).
16 maj 2024 · In 2020, 11,654 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers, accounting for 30% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. 1 This was a 14.3% increase compared to the number of crash deaths involving alcohol-impaired drivers in 2019. 1.
The event was the worst drunk driving crash in U.S. history killing 24 children and three adults. There were 40 survivors, many of whom suffered devastating injuries and burns.
Every day, about 37 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 39 minutes. In 2021, 13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths — a 14% increase from 2020. These deaths were all preventable.