2007 Traffic Safety Annual Assessment--Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities. Traffic Safety Facts Research Note

摘要

This research note presents the estimates of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities for 2007 from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System(FARS). This note is organized into four major sections. The first section discusses alcohol-impaired driving fatalities and the fatality rates of 2007 and compares wit with the estimates for 2006, and also presents long-term trends. The second section examines the characteristics (age, gender, etc.). of alcohol-impaired drivers (blood alcohol concentration (BAC) =.08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or higher), while the third and fourth sections present the same statistics by state.