High IMPACT PSA from Australia
This hoilday season, do your family and mine a favor… Don’t drink and drive!
Impaired Driving… For the love of your family!
For the love of your family, you’ll want to survive. When you go out this Christmas, don’t drink and drive. If you want to keep seeing your children smile, don’t drink and drive- not even for a mile.
Impaired Driving: How can deaths and injuries from impaired driving be prevented?
Effective measures include: Actively enforcing existing 0.08% BAC laws, minimum legal drinking age laws, and zero tolerance laws for drivers younger than 21 years old in all states. Promptly taking away the driver’s licenses of people who drive while intoxicated. Using sobriety checkpoints. Putting health promotion efforts into practice that influence economic, organizational, policy, and
Impaired Driving: Who is most at risk?
Young people: At all levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), the risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people than for older people. Among drivers with BAC levels of 0.08 % or higher involved in fatal crashes in 2009, more than one out of every 3 were between 21 and 24
Impaired Driving: How big is the problem?
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion. How big is the problem? In 2009, 10,839 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for
2009 Impaired Driving Stats
In 2009, there were 10,839 fatalities in crashes involving a driver with a BAC of .08 or higher – 32% of total traffic fatalities for the year. Traffic fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes decreased by 7.4 percent from 11,711 in 2008 to 10,839 in 2009. The alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled