Drunk driving statistics for Texas & other states with high DWI rates

Baytown motorcycle accident attorneys note that the U.S. NHTSA recently released the compiled 2010 statistics related to drunk driving accidents and fatalities. Among the notable pieces of data are the following:

• The highest percentages of drunk or impaired driving fatalities belong to North Dakota, South Carolina, and Texas. Drunk driving caused 44% of wrecks in North Dakota and South Carolina, and 42% of wrecks in Texas. These astounding percentages represent about a 2% increase from the prior year.
• There were 10,228 alcohol-related crashes in the United States in 2010. Texas had the highest number of alcohol-related accidents (2,998, or more than 25% of the total). California followed with 2,715 alcohol-related crashes. And Florida took third place with 2,445.
• Several other states also had more than 1,000 alcohol-related crashes. New York saw 1,200 drunk driving accidents. North Carolina had 1,319. Ohio saw 1,080, Pennsylvania had 1,324, and Tennessee experienced 1,031 drunk driving crashes.
• The 10,228 victims killed by drunk driving crashes in 2010 account for 31% of the total number (32,885) of U.S. accident fatalities for the year. 415 of these alcohol-related fatalities occurred during the second half of December, when holiday drunk driving accidents are known to increase dramatically.

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