Naked Truth

Drunk Driving

• Data estimates that a person drives drunk 300 times prior to their first DUI arrest.

 

• 25% of people with first conviction DUIs will go on to get a second DUI.

 

• Two-thirds of drunk drivers involved in a fatal car crash have never been arrested for DUI.

 

• Out of the 13 major metropolitan areas in California with over 250,000 people, Sacramento is ranked #1 in drunk driving deaths per capita.

 

• Drunk Driving in US 2002
  Deaths = 17,419
  Costs = $114 Billion (’00)
  51.1 Billion Monetary
  63.2 Billion  Quality of Life

 

• World Trade Center
  Deaths = 2,752
  Costs = 1.5 Billion for replacement by Freedom Tower

 

• Two-thirds of drunk drivers involved in fatal crashes have never been picked up for DUI.

 

• At any given time, we only catch 1% of the drunk drivers on the road.

 

• 2006 Crash Deaths related to Alcohol in the State of California = 1779

 

• DUIs account for approximately 40% of fatal motor vehicle crashes.

 

• DUIs cost the US $51 billion annually.

 

• In 2007, an estimated 12,998 people died in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes in the US.

 

• Three in every 10 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lives.

 

• At .08, a person is 11 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than someone who has had nothing to drink.

 

• Right now, only one arrest is made for every 88 episodes of driving over the illegal limit.

 

• In 2002, surveys estimates that Americans took over 159 million alcohol-impaired driving trips, compared with only 116 million in 1997. (over 435,000 per day!).

 

• In 2001, more than half a million people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one person injured almost every minute.