Executive Summary
I.
Drivers impaired by alcohol and other drugs have been, and continue to be, a major highway and public safety problem. In 2021, there were 42,939 traffic fatalities, the most in any year since 2005. 13,384, or 31% of those crashes, involved a driver with a blood-alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. This represents a 14% increase over the 11,718 people killed in alcohol-related crashes in 2020. And the 2020 number was a 14% increase from the 2019 alcohol-related fatality number. Since 2019, alcohol-related traffic fatalities have increased by 28%.
Drunk Driving Deaths Increased 14% in 2021
Together, we can end impaired driving.
It was estimated in 2015 that each day in the United States, people drive while intoxicated 300,000 times, but fewer than 3,000 are arrested. (1) This number continues to increase each year. Law enforcement's efforts to remove drunk and drug impaired drivers from our roadways through impaired driving arrests is truly our last line of defense and vital to public and traffic safety across the country. Drunk driving arrests, as reported to the FBI in 2020, are down over 50% from ten years ago. In 2010, the FBI reported 1,140,333 alcohol impaired driving arrests. In 2020, that number has dropped to 560,919 for a decrease of 51%.
Drastic Drop in Alcohol Impaired Arrests
Estimated Number of Alcohol Impaired Arrests from the FBI
Actual Number of Alcohol Arrests Recorded from the FBI
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