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Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English [1]) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol. A small increase in the blood alcohol content increases the relative risk of a motor vehicle crash.
1937 poster warning U.S. drivers against drunk driving. Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely. [1]
Alcohol-related collisions are often mistakenly confused with alcohol-caused collisions. Some [3] have criticized the NHTSA for compiling this statistic since it may give the impression that drunk drivers cause a much higher percentage of collisions and does not accurately reflect the problem of drunk driving in the United States.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 13,524 people died nationwide in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths in 2022, compared to 10,196 fatalities in 2019.
Of the 171 alcohol-impaired drivers, 108 were driving more with more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in their bloodstream. Those numbers have remained stagnant since 2013, when 543 people in ...
If impaired driving prevention technology was already in vehicles, ... $70.2 million had been spent on the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety public-private program, with the auto industry ...
Drunk driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle with the operator's ability to do so impaired as a result of alcohol consumption, or with a blood alcohol level in excess of the legal limit. [1] For drivers 21 years or older, driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or higher is illegal.
While roadside testing has some kinks to work out, education around driving and cannabis should be a simpler path—and experts say it needs to catch up to where drunk driving has been for years.