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Alcohol Impaired Driving Facts
Risk Factors for Increased Alcohol Consumption
Risk Factors for Alcohol Impaired Driving
Protective Factors
Marijuana and Driving Facts
Traffic Safety and Impaired Driving Facts
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Risk Factors for Alcohol Impaired Driving
- Adult drivers ages 35 and older who have been arrested
for impaired driving are 11 to 12 times more likely than those
who have never been arrested to die eventually in crashes involving
alcohol. 2
- Nearly three quarters of drivers convicted of driving
while impaired are either frequent heavy drinkers (alcohol abusers)
or alcoholics (people who are alcohol dependent). 2
- By a wide margin, 21 year-olds recorded the most
alcohol-related fatalities (680) in 2000. The ages with the next
highest numbers of fatalities in alcohol-related crashes were
19, 22, 20 and 23, respectively. By comparison, no other single
age besides these five accounted for more than 500 alcohol-related
fatalities. 3
- Male drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes
are almost twice as likely as female drivers to be intoxicated
with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.10% or greater A
BAC of 0.08% is equal to or greater than the legal limit in most
states. 1
- At all levels of blood alcohol concentration, the
risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people
than it is for older people. In 2002, 24% of drivers ages 15 to
20 who died in motor vehicle crashes had been drinking alcohol.
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- Young men ages 18 to 20 (too young to buy alcohol
legally) report driving while impaired almost as frequently as
men ages 21 to 34. 1
References:
1.What You Need to Know About. Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. Retrieved on February 1, 2009 from the World Wide Web: http://alcoholism.about.com/library/blnaa37.htm
2.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Impaired Driving. Retrieved on February 1, 2009 from the World Wide Web: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm
3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Youth Fatal Crash and Alcohol Facts. Retrieved on November 25, 2003
from the World Wide Web: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/2002YFCAF/youthfspa.html
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