Drunk Driving Facts
Teaching young drivers about the dangers of drinking and driving is an essential part of their development as safe drivers. It can be challenging, however, to know how to broach the subject and what points to cover. Facts about drunk driving can be a great place to start a conversation with a young driver.
- Every year there are approximately 16,000 people killed in car crashes that are the direct result of drunk driving.
- Alcohol is a contributing factor in nearly 50 percent of all traffic related deaths on America’s roads.
- Every 53 minutes, one person is killed in the United States from drunk driving. This works out to 27 people killed every day.
- Every two minutes in the United States, a person suffers a serious injury as the result of an alcohol-related car crash.
- Car crashes are the number one cause of death among young people between the ages of 13 and 19 with fully one-third of those crashes involving alcohol.
- In 2010, 211 children were killed in alcohol related car crashes. 623 percent of those children were passengers in the car that was being driven by the drunk driver.
- Law enforcement efforts and other legislation throughout the United States related to drinking and driving has helped cut the fatality rate of drunk driving by 50 percent since 1980.
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