Call a taxi, phone a sober friend or family member, use public transportation, etc. If you drink, do not drive for any reason. Plan your safe ride home before you start the party. If you will be drinking, plan on not driving. In 2016, 21 percent of males were drunk in these crashes, compared to 14 percent for females. Men are more likely than women to be driving drunk in fatal crashes. In 2019, there were 1,775 people killed in alcohol-related crashes where a driver had a BAC of. 08 or higher, yet one person was killed in a drunk-driving crash every 50 minutes in the United States in 2016. In every state, it’s illegal to drive with a BAC of. In fact, on average over the 10-year period from 2006-2016, more than 10,000 people died every year in drunk-driving crashes.
In 2016, there were 10,497 people killed in these preventable crashes. These deaths were all preventable.Īpproximately one-third of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers (with blood alcohol concentrations of. In 2019, these deaths reached the lowest percentage since 1982 when NHTSA started reporting alcohol data - but still 10,142 people lost their lives. Yet it still continues to happen across the United States. If you drive while impaired, you could get arrested, or worse-be involved in a traffic crash that causes serious injury or death.Įvery day, about 28 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes - that's one person every 52 minutes.
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