Facts Drunk Driving
Answers to 29 questions on drunk driving in the FREE DUI & DWI Facts booklet Author: kj george Every day lots of people get their driver's license after taking drivers education and profess to follow the rules of the road. But unfortunately statistics prove that many people break the rules a...
Answers to 29 questions on drunk driving in the FREE DUI & DWI Facts booklet
Author: kj george
Every day lots of people get their driver's license after taking drivers education and profess to follow the rules of the road. But unfortunately statistics prove that many people break the rules and drive drunk. One drink can impair your driving and you can be arrested and charges with a DUI, driving under the influence.
If this is your first DUI offense you will have a lot of questions relating to your charges. Yes that is right, you can be charged and convicted of two crimes but only punished for one. The standard offense is "driving under the influence of alcohol" (DUI), or in some states, "operating while intoxicated" (OWI), or "driving while intoxicated" (DWI). In recent years, 49 states have also enacted a second, so-called "per se" offense: driving with an excessive blood-alcohol concentration, also known as BAC, (either .08% a" as in California a" or .10%). In those states, both offenses are charged. The defendant can even be convicted of both, but can be punished for only one.
If the case involves a refusal to submit to chemical testing, of course, only the traditional offense will be charged.
There is a FREE booklet available that will answer 29 of your questions relating to your drunk driving charges. The DUI & DWI Facts booklet gives you the answers you are looking for.
The booklet covers topics relating to costs and penalties, what to do about your driver's license, what happens in the courts, what to do about car insurance and much more.
Most importantly it also discusses whether or you should hire an attorney or represent yourself. You know the old saying, aA man who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a clienta.
I recommend Craig Sturm of Sturm Law on Los Angeles. Craig Sturm is a former Los Angeles County Public Defender.
He has the experience from handling over 2000 DUI cases.
He knows his way thru the Los Angeles court system and is for going to trial and winning!
Go to the website to get the FREE DUI & DWI Facts booklet and then call Craig Sturm to help you see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Can someone give me a bunch of facts on drunk driving?
It’s for a school project please, please, please!!
Where can I find facts about drunk driving?
Specifically, I want to know if there’s a site that lists all the people who have drunk-driving related deaths, accidents, the number of people that go to jail, anything and everything you’ve got.
List your sources.
Person with the most facts gets the ten points.
I’ve already got AlcoholStats.com, the MADD website, and The DUI Library. Don’t even bother with those.
Can I have ten facts about drunk driving that I could use for a power point?
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
has a bunch,
and there are more at
Below are some statistics on drinking and driving in the US. After reading this list, please read about Alcohol Alert to find out what you can do to help stem the tide of drunk driving deaths in your neighborhood…and make money at the same time.
All 50 states in the US and Puerto Rico now apply two statutory offenses to driving under the influence of alcohol. The first (and original) offense is known either as driving under the influence (DUI), driving while intoxicated/impaired (DWI), or operating [a motor vehicle] while intoxicated/impaired (OWI). This is based upon a police officer’s observations (driving behavior, slurred speech, the results of a roadside sobriety test, etc.)
The second offense is called “illegal per se”, which is driving with a BAC of 0.08% or higher. Since 2002 it has been illegal in all 50 states to drive with a BAC that is 0.08% or higher.
In 2006, there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher) – 32 percent of total traffic fatalities for the year.
16,005 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related* motor vehicle traffic crashes (BAC of .01 or higher).
In 2006, 1,794 children age 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Of those 1,794 fatalities, 306 (17%) occurred in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Children riding in vehicles with drivers who had a BAC level of .08 or higher accounted for half (153) of these deaths.
The 13,470 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities in 2006 were almost the same as compared to 13,451 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities reported in 1996. Ten years of progress.
The 13,470 fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes during 2006 represent an average of one alcohol-impaired-driving fatality every 39 minutes.
The rate of alcohol impairment among drivers involved in fatal crashes was four times higher at night than during the day.
The percentage of drivers with BAC of .08 or above in fatal crashes was highest for motorcycle operators (27 percent), followed by light trucks (24 percent), and then passenger cars (23 percent). The percentage of drivers with BAC levels of .08 or higher in fatal crashes was the lowest for large trucks (1%).
In fatal crashes in 2006, the highest percentage of drivers with a BAC level of .08 or higher was for drivers ages 21-24 (33%), followed by ages 25-34 (29%) and 35-44 (25%).
Drivers with a BAC level of .08 or higher involved in fatal crashes were eight times more likely to have a prior conviction for driving while impaired (DWI) than were drivers with no alcohol (8% and 1%, respectively).
In 2006, more than 8,200 (55%) of the drivers involved in fatal crashes who had been drinking had a BAC of .15 or greater.
As in previous years, in 2006, males comprise a majority, about 81 percent, of all drivers involved in fatal crashes with a BAC=.08+.
♣
What Are Some Facts About Drunk Driving?
And not anything stupid like “Its bad” or whatever.
http://www.luhs.org/depts/injprev/Transprt/tran1-06.htm
In 2006 there were 17,941 driving fatalities related to alcohol. This was 41 percent of the total 43,000 fatalities.
Half of all holiday driving fatalities are alcohol-related.
Most people with DUIs are not alcoholics.
About 80 percent of alcohol-related fatalities are caused by beer consumption.
About 30 percent of Americans are involved in an alcohol-related crash sometime during their lifetime
In 2004, 30 percent of all fatal crashes during the week were alcohol-related, compared to 51 percent on weekends. For all crashes, the alcohol involvement rate was 5 percent during the week and 12 percent during the weekend. alcohol-related crashes tend to be much more serious.
18-20 year olds are responsible for more than 10 percent of the drunken driving trips in America.
In addition to possible jail time and fines, a DUI conviction is cause to have your insurance policy revoked and rates to sky rocket. Many people will be forced to get SR-22 insurance.
In 2003 about 1 in 135 drivers were arrested for DUI. Thats’ about 1.4 million people.
One judge in Texas ordered a drunk driver who killed another person to stand on the side of a busy street holding a sign stating that he killed somebody while driving drunk.
I need drunk driving facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Please LIST as many drunk driving facts/statistics you can. Thank you so much!
***Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for every age from five through twenty- seven. Almost half of these crashes are alcohol-related.***
Approximately 19.3% of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in 1995 were intoxicated at the time of their crash (21% in 1993).
In single-vehicle fatal crashes occurring on weekend nights in 1994, 72.3% of the fatally injured drivers 25 years old or older were intoxicated, as compared with 57.7% of drivers under the age of 25.
In 1995, 32% of all fatal crashes during the week were alcohol-related, compared to 54% on weekends. For all crashes, the alcohol involvement rate was 5% during the week and 11% during the weekend.
It is estimated that 2.6 million drunk driving crashes each year victimize 4 million innocent people who are injured or have their vehicles damaged.
In 1993, one in 100 drivers had a BAC of .10 or greater.
About 16 billion miles were driven drunk.
In fatal crashes, the proportion of drivers who were intoxicated (blood alcohol content of .10 or greater) decreased from 25.7% in 1985 to 19.3% in 1995, a 25% decrease in that proportion.
The number of intoxicated drivers killed in traffic crashes decreased from 9,805 in 1985 to 7,538 in 1995, a reduction of 20%.
Male drivers involved in fatal crashes were nearly twice as likely to have been intoxicated (21.8%) than were females (11.2%).
Men are four times more likely than women to drive after drinking.
In 1995, there were 11,723 fatally injured drivers in single vehicle crashes. About 46.7% were intoxicated.
The highest intoxication rates in fatal crashes in 1995 were recorded for drivers 21-24 years old (27.8%), followed by ages 25-34 (26.8%) and 35-44 (22.8%).
Nearly a third of males (31%) drove after drinking in the past year, compared with only 13% of females.
Drivers age 21 to 29 drive the greatest proportion of their miles drunk.
More than 2,300 anti-drunk driving laws have been passed since 1980.