Just how common is drinking and driving? You may think every other person on the road on any given Saturday night is drunk, and you’d be close to right.
It’s estimated about 11,000 people died in crashes in 2009 involving alcohol-impaired drivers, or one in three crashes resulted in death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 112 million incidents of drinking and driving occurred in 2010. This translates to about 300,000 times every day.
The study published in the CDC’s Vital Signs on Tuesday, October 4, relied on data from the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. It finds:
Young men ages 21 to 34 make up only 11% of the population but were involved in 32% of all drunken driving episodes.
This is overwhelmingly a male problem. The study found 81% of drinking and driving incidents in 2010 involved men.
The worst offenders were involved in binge drinking; this means men had five or more drinks at one time and women had four or mor [...]
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