Traffic Safety Facts 2008 Data: Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Traffic fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes decreased nearly 10% from 13,041 in 2007 to 11,773 in 2008. The alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rate per 100 million VMT decreased to 0.40 in 2008 from 0.43 in 2007. The 11,773 fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes during 2008 represent an average of one alcohol-impaired-driving fatality every 45 minutes. In 2008, all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico had by law created a threshold making it illegal per se to drive with a BAC of .08 or higher. Of the 11,773 people who died in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes in 2008, 8,027 (68%) were drivers with a BAC of .08 or higher. The remaining fatalities consisted of 3,054 (26%) motor vehicle occupants and 692 (6%) nonoccupants. Additional statistics on alcohol-impaired-driving fatal crashes in 2008 are provided in this traffic safety fact sheet.
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Corporate Authors:
National Center for Statistics and Analysis
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: 6p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Blood alcohol levels; Drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Per se laws; Statistics; Traffic crashes; Trend (Statistics); Vehicle occupants
- Uncontrolled Terms: Nonoccupants
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01140922
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-811 155
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Sep 29 2009 4:22PM