TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SLATER SAYS ALCOHOL-RELATED TRAFFIC DEATHS DROPPED TO A RECORD LOW IN 1997
To characterize the involvement of alcohol in motor-vehicle-related deaths of U.S. children aged <15 years during 1985-1996, CDC analyzed data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This report summarizes the results of ...
What Causes Alcohol-Related Deaths? Over half of alcohol-related deaths are because of health effects from drinking too much over time. It can lead to things like cancer, liver disease, and heart disease. But drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time can also be deadly...
The number and rate of alcohol-related deaths increased approximately 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. They said there were increases for all age groups with the largest increase occurring for people between 35 to 44 years old, with a nearly 40% incr...
More than 13,000 traffic-related deaths involve alcohol. Statistics like these show the many hazards of alcohol misuse, but not all of them. There are unreported injuries, accidents, and assaults involving alcohol that occur daily. While they may not lead to death, they can harm a person’...
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 0.15 or greater. However, since 1982, alcohol-related fatalities have dropped from 60 percent to 38 percent in ...
But Murthy points out that alcohol use is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in America, behind tobacco and obesity. It contributes to nearly 100,000 cancer cases and roughly 20,000 cancer deaths every year—more than the number of annual d...
In Berinia, the age at which people could begin to drink alcohol legally used to be 18. In 1990, in an attempt to reduce alcohol consumption and thereby to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths among Berinians under 21, the legal drinking age was r
“In 2002, an estimated 17,419 people died in alcohol–related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constitute 41 percent of the 42,815 total traffic fatalities [in America]” (NHTSA qtd. in MADD main). From these statistics, it is clear to see that drunk ...
alcohol related traffic fatalities 152 [32nd of 51] alcohol related traffic fatalities (per capita) 0.629 per 10,000 people [21st of 51] alcohol related traffic fatalities, as a percentage 39% [24th of 51] alcohol use in the past month 46.95% [38th of 51] sources: centers for disease ...