Alcohol
Alcohol Related Traffic Accidents
1998 statistics released by NHTSA
In 1998, 15,935 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes, an average of one every 33 minutes. These deaths constituted approximately 38.4% of the total 41,471 total traffic fatalities. (NHTSA, 1999)
About 630,000 were injured in alcohol-related crashes, an average of one person injured approximately every minute. About 30,000 people a year will suffer permanent work-related disabilities. (Miller et al, 1998, 1996b)
Every weekday night from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., one in 13 drivers is drunk (BAC of .08 or more). Between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on weekend mornings, one in seven drivers is drunk. (Miller et al., 1996c)
Since 1982, annual alcohol-related traffic deaths have been reduced by 37%. (NHTSA, 1999) NHTSA estimates that between 90,307 and 128,520 lives have been saved between 1983 and 1996 due to the decrease in alcohol involvement in fatal crashes in the United States. (NHTSA, 1997)
About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. (NHTSA, 1999)
Economic costs of alcohol-related crashes are estimated to be $45 billion yearly. An additional $70.5 billion is lost in quality of life due to these crashes. (Miller et al, 1996b)
In 1998, there were nearly 2 alcohol-related traffic deaths per hour, 44 per day and 306 per week. That is the equivalent of 2 jetliners crashing week after week. (NHTSA, 1999)
While most drivers involved in fatal crashes have no prior conviction for DWI, those who do are at significantly greater risk of causing a drunk driving crash. (NHTSA, 1997)
A driver with a BAC of 0.15 is more than 300 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash. (NHTSA, 1997)
During the period 1982 through 1999, approximately 349,472 persons lost their lives in alcohol-related traffic crashes. (NHTSA, 1999)
More Americans have died in alcohol-related traffic crashes than in all the wars the United States has been involved in since our country was founded. (NHTSA, 1996)
Drunk driving is the nation's most frequently committed violent crime. (MADD, 1998)
U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The role of alcohol in crime victimization
About 3 million violent crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided information about the offender's use of alcohol, about 35% of the victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking.
Two-thirds of victims who suffered violence by an intimate (a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend) reported that alcohol had been a factor. Among spouse victims, 3 out of 4 incidents were reported to have involved an offender who had been drinking. By contrast, an estimated 31% of stranger victimizations where the victim could determine the absence or presence of alcohol were perceived to be alcohol-related.
For about 1 in 5 violent victimizations involving perceived alcohol use by the offender.
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