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Super Bowl Sunday Impaired Driving Prevention, January 31, 2011 – February 6, 2011
Every day, over 700 people die or are injured from motor vehicle crashes because of alcohol-impaired drivers.
In December, during National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month (3D Month), consider what you and your community can do to make injuries and deaths from impaired driving less of a threat.
The Problem
- In 2006, 32% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States (U.S.) were caused by alcohol impaired drivers.
- In one year, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. This is less than 1% of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.
- Alcohol-related crashes are costly to everyone.
- Young people
- Motorcyclists
- Drivers with prior driving while impaired convictions
All injuries, including those caused by impaired drivers are preventable. Steps to make sure that you and your love ones are safe, avoids driving under the influence of alcohol and peak hours (weekend nights). Here are some tips to help you stay safe:
- Plan ahead. Always designate a sober driver before any party or celebration begins.
- Take the keys. Do not let anyone drive if they are impaired.
- Be a helpful host. If you’re hosting a party, remind your guests to plan ahead and designate their sober driver, always offer alcohol-free beverages, and make sure all of your guests leave with a sober driver.
Through studies, proven community and state-level methods for reducing alcohol-impaired driving include:
- Fatal crashes thought to involve alcohol dropped by about 22% following implementation of sobriety checkpoints.
- Raising the Minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws to 21 reduced crashes by about 16% among those 18 to 20 years old.
- Fatal alcohol-related crashes declined 7% after enforcing 0.08% BAC laws.
- Zero tolerance laws resulted in declines (9% to 24%).in fatal crashes among 18-20 year old drivers.
http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/3d.html
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