1. Drunk Driving Statistics
General Drunk Driving
Mr. Caskey
Statistics Provided by M.A.D.D.

2. General Drunk Driving/DUI
50 to 75 percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license. 
In the United States, the number of drunk driving deaths has been cut in half since MADD was founded in 1980.
An average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times before first arrest. 
The rate of drunk driving is highest among 21 to 25 year olds (23.4 percent). 
Only time will sober a person up. Drinking strong coffee, exercising or taking a cold shower will not help. 
General Drunk Driving/DUI

3. General Drunk Driving/DUI Cont.
Every day in America, another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes. 
Every two minutes, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash. 
Drunk driving costs the United States $199 billion a year. 
On average, two in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. 
In 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 51 minutes - and 290,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes. 
Drunk driving costs each adult in the United States almost $800 per year.
In 2012, 29.1 million people admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol - that’s more than the population of Texas.
General Drunk Driving/DUI Cont.

4. Drunk driving involvement in fatal crashes in 2011 was 4
Drunk driving involvement in fatal crashes in 2011 was 4.5 times higher at night than during the day (36 versus 8 percent).
Brittany Walsh
In 2011, 15 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes during the week were drunk, compared to 31 percent on weekends. 
Time of Day

5. Children
In 2012, 239 child passengers (under age 15) were killed in drunk driving crashes – representing 20 percent of all child traffic fatalities. Of those, more than half (52 percent) were passengers in a vehicle with the drunk driver.

6. Nature of alcohol impairment
Impairment is not determined by the type of drink, but rather by the amount of alcohol drunk over time.
A standard drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which contain the same amount of alcohol. 
The average person metabolizes alcohol at the rate of about one drink per hour. 
Nature of alcohol impairment

7. Demographics of drunk drivers
Males were more likely than females (15.1 vs. 7.9 percent) to drive drunk. 
In fatal crashes in 2011, the highest percentage of drunk drivers was for drivers ages 21 to 24 (32 percent), followed by ages 25 to 34 (30 percent) and 35 to 44 (24 percent).
Demographics of drunk drivers 

8. Each day, people drive drunk almost 300,000 times, but fewer than 4,000 are arrested. 
About one-third of all drivers arrested or convicted of drunk driving are repeat offenders. 
Over 1.2 million drivers were arrested in 2011 for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. 
Arrests