- Every 2 minutes, someone is non-fatally injured by an alcohol-related motor vehicle crash.

- Alcohol-related crashes kill every 22 minutes.

- One of every 50 drivers is drunk. This number increases to one out of 10 on weekend nights.

- In 2006, an estimated 17,602 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constitute 41 percent of the 42,642 total traffic fatalities. Of these, an estimated 13,470 involved a driver with an illegal BAC (.08 or greater).

- Each year, alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost about billion.



More statistics to come.

National SADD website at www.sadd.org.

MADD walk website at www.walklikemadd.org.



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