jake sanders's List: drinking and driving

• In 2002...
   DRUNK DRIVERS IN THE U.S. KILLED 17,000 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN!
   (5% MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, 2001)

• Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.

• n the United States, every 30 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol related traffic accident.

    
• Over 15 million Americans are dependent on alcohol. 500,000 are between the age of 9 and 12.
• Drunk driving is proving to be even deadlier then what we previously know. The latest death statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), using a new method of calculation show that 17,488 people where killed in alcohol related traffic accidents last year. This report represents nearly 800 more people where killed than the previous year.
• In 1996, local law enforcement agencies made an estimated 1,467,300 arrests nationwide for driving under the influence of alcohol.

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• Every day, 36 people in the United States die, and approximately 700 more are injured, in motor vehicle crashes that involve an  alcohol-impaired driver.
• The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.
• In 2006, 13,470 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (32%) of all traffic-related   deaths in the United States.
• Males: Male drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes are almost twice as likely as female drivers to be intoxicated with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or greater
• t is illegal to drive with a BAC of 0.08% or higher in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
• • • Nearly half of the alcohol-impaired motorcyclists killed each year are 40 or older, and motorcyclists ages 40-44 have the highest percentage of fatalities with BACs of 0.08% or greater.⁹
     
    • Among drivers killed in fatal crashes, 30% have BACs of 0.08% or greater.⁹
     
     
   
  • Drivers with prior driving while impaired (DWI) convictions: Among drivers involved in fatal crashes, those with BAC levels of 0.08% or higher were eight times more likely to have a prior conviction for DWI than were drivers who had not consumed alcohol.¹
• Over the past 20 years, alcohol-related fatal crash rates have decreased by 60 percent for drivers ages 16 to 17 years and 55  percent for drivers ages 18 to 20 years

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• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely. Low to moderate doses of alcohol can also increase the incidence of a variety of aggressive acts,
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
• Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.

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• any alcohol at all will affect your    ability to drive.

    

  Alcohol will:

    
    
  • reduce    your ability to do more than one thing at a time
    
  • make it    hard for you to concentrate on your driving
    
  • slow down    your reaction time if something unexpected happens
    
  • make you    feel more confident., which may lead you to take risks
    
  • upset    your vision, especially at night, and your hearing
    
  • make simple    tasks more difficult
    
  • relax    you, making you more likely to fall asleep at the wheel.
    
    
• • at 0.05    BAC your risk of being involved in a rood crash is double what it would    be if you had not been drinking at all
    
  • at 0.1    BAC your risk is more than seven times as high as at zero BAC
    
  • at 0.15    BAC your relative crash risk is a huge 25 times more than if you had    not been drinking at all.

• The relative risk of death for drivers in single-vehicle crashes with a high BAC is 385 times that of a zero-BAC driver and for male drivers the risk is 707 times that of a sober driver

• 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.