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DUI / Alcohol Statistics for 2001-2002

United States - 2002

"Alcohol-related" means that a driver or pedestrian had a measurable Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)

Total traffic fatalities – 42,850

Alcohol-related – 17,970 (42% of total) (49 per day) (1 every 30 minutes), a 6.1% 1-year increase; 3^rd consecutive annual increase.

Highest Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in alcohol-related fatalities:

.01% - .07% – 2,335

.08% or higher – 15,635

Average BAC of most intoxicated driver involved in alcohol-related fatal crashes – .16%

Estimated alcohol-related traffic injuries - 513,000 (1 per minute)

California (2001, unless otherwise noted)

"Alcohol-involved" means that an involved driver had been drinking (HBD)

Total traffic fatalities – 3,956

Alcohol-involved fatalities – 1,569 (40% of total fatalities) (4 per day)

Total traffic injuries – 305,827

Alcohol-involved injuries – 31,806 (10.4% of total injuries) (1 every 17 minutes)

178,950 DUI arrests (not convictions)(490 per day) -- 8 arrests per 1,000 licensed drivers:

84.8% Male

Average age - 33.5

44.1% Hispanic (31.3% of population)

42.6% White (49.7% of population)

7% Black (6.7% of population)

6.3% Other (12.4% of population)

Year 2000 – Average BAC of DUI convictees – .163% (112 had BAC’s of .40% or higher!)

Orange County (2001, unless noted otherwise)

Alcohol-related traffic fatalities – 80 (1 every 4.6 days)

Alcohol-related traffic injuries – 1,959 (6 per day)

12,074 DUI arrests (not convictions):

6/10's of 1% (83) under age 18

6.9% (830) under age 21

4/10's of 1% (58) age 71+

83.4% male

50.8% white / 39.3% Hispanic

6 arrests per 1,000 licensed drivers, tied for second-lowest arrest rate in the whole state.

Los Angeles County had 7 arrests per 1,000 licensed drivers; San Diego County had 8; San Bernardino County had 10; statewide 8 arrests per 1,000 licensed drivers.

Change in # of DUI arrests compared to 1999 – 13.8% decrease, largest decrease for large counties.

Conviction rate for DUI arrests in 2000 – 92.9% (second only to Tuolumne County, which had 93.9%, but they had less than 700 arrests)

This page is http://www.maddorangecounty.org/oc_stats_2002.htm

Page updated: August 13, 2005