while impaired. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), approximately 11,654 Americans were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2020; deaths like these were 30% of all total motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the US. 1.5 million people are arrested each...
Alcohol-impaired driving has been recognized as a problem in many countries since 1914. Worldwide, it is estimated that alcohol-impaired driving crashes account for anywhere from 5% (e.g., Turkey, Nicaragua) to 35% (e.g., United States, Australia) of the 1.35 million traffic deaths each ...
census of motor vehicle fatalities by driver blood alcohol level.MethodsRegressions estimated associations of monopolies with under-21 drinking, binge drinking, alcohol-impaired driving deaths, and odds a driver under 21 who died was alcohol-positive.ResultsAbout 93.8% of those ages 12–20 who consum...
Drinking and driving results in numerous car accidents, injuries, and deaths each year. In 2009, there were over 10,800 crash fatalities with a driver BAC of 0.08 or higher, roughly 32 percent of total traffic fatalities for the year. Of these drivers, fifty-six percent had had a BAC of...
Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes are a major public health problem, resulting in 15,786 deaths and more than 300,000 injuries in 1999. This report pre... RA Shults,RW Elder,DA Sleet,... - 《American Journal ...
More children in the United States are killed in motor vehicle crashes annually than by any other cause; nearly a quarter of these deaths involve alcohol. This study examines the national prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving and riding with an alcohol-impaired driver and the association of these...
Despite recent declines in rates for alcohol-related traffic deaths, U.S. drivers continue to drink and drive at a high rate. During 1993, approximately 123 million episodes of self-reported alcohol-impaired driving occurred in the United States.7Further reduction in alcohol-involved motor-vehicle...
1: Driving Don't let the cop have to give you the breathalyser test. aijohn784/iStock/Thinkstock Do we even need to say it? Drinking and driving still don't mix. In the U.S., the number of drunk driving deaths has been cut in half since 1980, but sadly, drunk driving fat...
Strict enforcement of laws that discourage alcohol-impaired driving is needed along with community and patient education to reduce the prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving and prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. Data from the BRFSS, an ongoing source of national ...
Alcohol-impaired driving is a major public health problem associated with alcohol misuse. After substantial decreases in alcohol-related crashes between 1990 and 2010 (NHTSA, 2002, 2012), progress in further reducing fatalities has been stalled at more than ten thousand deaths per year (NHTSA, 2017...