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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.
2014 Traffic Deaths due to crashes involving drivers at or above 0.08 BAC [1]. Alcohol-related traffic crashes are defined by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as alcohol-related if either a driver or a non-motorist had a measurable or estimated BAC of 0.01 g/dl or above.
From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 14.97% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35.46%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
Drunk driving is a serious issue for Texans and it usually ends in death, new data suggests. Six cities in Texas have the highest percentage of fatal crashes involving a drunken driver, a study by ...
Drunk driving deaths increased by 14% for two consecutive years, rising to more than 13,000 for the first time since 2007. If impaired driving prevention technology was already in vehicles, just ...
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
In 2019, the first year of the .05 law, deaths plummeted to 27 and the law was heralded as a massive success. Following that dramatic dip, however, drunk driving deaths in Utah bounced back to 48 ...
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] Multiple other terms are used for the offense in ...