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Every day, about 37 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that's one person every 39 minutes. In 2022, 13,524 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths. These deaths were all preventable.
In 2020, 11,654 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers, accounting for 30% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. 1 This was a 14.3% increase compared to the number of crash deaths involving alcohol-impaired drivers in 2019. 1
About 37 people in America die each day in drunk-driving car crashes. Read here to find out more statistics, including states for highest drunk driving fatalities.
Every day, about 37 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 39 minutes. In 2021, 13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths — a 14% increase from 2020.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 42,514 people died in traffic crashes in 2022 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 13,524 people who were killed in drunk driving crashes involving a driver with an illegal BAC (.08 or greater).
In 2022 there were 13,524 fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes in which at least one driver was alcohol impaired. This represented 32 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States for the year. Traffic fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes decreased by 0.7 percent (13,617 to 13,524 fatalities) from 2021 to 2022.
In 2021 there were 13,384 people killed in crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers (defined as drivers or motorcycle riders with BACs of .08 g/dL or higher). This was an increase of 14.2% from the 11,718 fatalities in 2020 (National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2023a).
In 2017 there were 10,874 people killed in alcohol-impaired- driving crashes, an average of 1 alcohol-impaired-driving fatality every 48 minutes. These alcohol- impaired-driving fatalities accounted for 29 percent of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the United States in 2017.
In 2018, traffic crashes on public roadways in the USA caused 36 560 motor vehicle-related deaths 1 and an additional 2.7 million non-fatal emergency department visits. 2 These statistics include drivers, passengers and non-occupants such as pedestrians and bicyclists. Alcohol-impaired driving (AID) is a major risk factor for traffic crashes.
The national rate of alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities in motor vehicle crashes in 2019 was 0.31 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT), down from 0.33 in 2018. The alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rate in the past 10 years has declined by 9 percent, from 0.34 in 2010 to 0.31 in 2019. Figure 1 pres-