Alcohol Involvement for Drivers in Fatal Crashes: statistics


	1985		1988		1995			1998

Drivers involved in		Percentage		Percentage		Percentage		Percentage	Change in
fatal crashes	Number of	with BAC	Number of	with BAC	Number of	with BAC	Number of	with BAC	percentage,
	drivers	of .10%	drivers	of .10%	drivers	of .10%	drivers	of .10%	1988-98
		or greater		or greater		or greater		or greater

Total drivers ¹	57,883	25.7	62,253	25	56,155	19.3	56,543	18	-28.0

Drivers by age group:
16 to 20 years old	9,386	23.9	10,171	21	7,738	12.7	7,755	14	-33.0
21 to 24 years old	9,046	35.3	8,555	35	6,268	27.8	5,599	28	-20.0
25 to 34 years old	15,257	32.4	16,398	33	13,029	26.8	11,895	24	-27.0
35 to 44 years old	8,892	24.3	10,077	25	10,664	22.8	11,220	21	-16.0
45 to 64 years old	9,262	16.7	10,081	16	10,884	14.3	12,151	13	-19.0
65 years old and over	4,479	7.6	5,376	7	6,238	5.0	6,680	5	-29.0

Drivers by sex:
Male	44,846	28.2	47,402	28	41,216	21.8	40,746	20	-29.0
Female	12,142	15.5	13,951	15	14,179	11.2	15,061	10	-33.0

Drivers by vehicle type:
Passenger cars	34,071	26.1	36,769	25	30,692	19.2	28,857	18	-28.0
Light trucks	12,372	28.7	15,167	29	17,420	22.4	19,104	20	-31.0
Large trucks	5,091	3.6	5,141	3	4,391	1.3	4,883	1	-67.0
Motorcycles	4,598	39.3	3,704	36	2,257	29.1	2,323	31	-14.0

1 Does not add, due to unknown or other data not included

Source: National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, Accident Facts, 1997 edition. http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statstop.htm * Accident is that occurrence in a sequence of events that produces unintended injury, death, or property damage. Accident refers to the event, not the result of the event (see unintentional injury).

Death from accident is a death that occurs within one year of the accident.

Fatal accident is an accident that results in one or more deaths within one year.

Motor vehicle is any mechanically or electrically powered device not operated on rails, upon which or by which any person or property may be transported upon a land highway. The load on a motor vehicle or trailer attached to it, is considered part of the vehicle. Tractors and motorized machinery are included while self-propelled in transit or used for transportation. Nonmotor vehicle is any road vehicle other than a motor vehicle, such as a bicycle or animal-drawn vehicle, except a coaster wagon, child's sled, child's tricycle, child's carriage and similar means of transportation; persons using these latter means of transportation are considered pedestrians.

Motor-vehicle accident is an unstabilized situation that includes at least one harmful event (injury or property damage) involving a motor vehicle in transport (in motion, in readiness for motion, or on a roadway, but not parked in a designated parking area) that does not result from discharge of a firearm or explosive device and does not directly result from a cataclysm. [See Committee on Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident Classification, (1997), Manual on Classification of Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents, ANSI D16.1-1996, Itasca, IL: National Safety Council.]

Motor-vehicle traffic accident is a motor-vehicle accident that occurs on a trafficway-a way or place, any part of which is open to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular traffic. Motor-vehicle nontraffic accident is any motor-vehicle accident that occurs entirely in any place other than a trafficway.

Nonfatal injury accident is an accident in which at least one person is injured, and no injury results in death.

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/1044_alcohol_involvement_for_drivers_in_fatal.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

Copyright © 2006 Photius Coutsoukis and Information Technology Associates, all rights reserved.