In 2024, authorities in Japan reported 2.35 thousand accidents involving drunk driving. Fatal accidents are considerably more likely to occur when the motor vehicle driver is under the influence of alcohol.

In 2022, Texas was the state recording the highest volume of fatalities resulting from alcohol-impaired driving at ***** number of fatalities, followed by California, which reported around ***** fatalities from drunk driving. These two states alone, out of 51, account for nearly ********* of the total fatalities incurred by alcohol-impaired driving. The Golden state amounted to the largest share of motor vehicle registrations in the country in 2021.

Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities 2005-2014; All persons killed in crashes involving a driver with BAC >= .08 g/dL. Occupant Fatalities 2005-2014; All occupants killed where body type = 1-79. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2005-2013 Final Reports and 2014 Annual Report File

In 2023, the number of traffic accidents caused by driving under the influence of alcohol amounted to just over 13 thousand cases, a decrease compared to the previous year but still notably lower than in the years prior to that. Drink-driving accidents in South Korea has overall decreased in the last years.

In 2024, the least accidents caused by Poles driving under the influence of alcohol occurred in January, with a total of ** road accidents. On the other hand, the ************* recorded the highest number of road accidents caused by drunk drivers that year.

1. Data source: Road Safety Information Inquiry Network: Traffic accident statistics at a glance https://roadsafety.tw 2. Statistical conditions: All drivers (cars, motorcycles, power machinery, slow vehicles) drink-driving (exceeding 0.15mg by breath test) /L) accident, resulting in the number of deaths and injuries (including all drivers, passengers, and pedestrians affected by the incident).

Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Crashes reports the number of recorded DUI crashes, fatalities, and injuries per town, for a given year. Domain

These data measure the effects of blood alcohol content coupled with officer reports at the time of arrest on driving while intoxicated (DWI) case outcomes (jury verdicts and guilty pleas). Court records and relevant police reports for drunk-driving cases drawn from the greater metropolitan areas of Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles were compiled to produce this data collection. Cases were selected to include roughly equal proportions of guilty pleas, guilty verdicts, and not-guilty verdicts. DWI cases were compared on the quality and quantity of evidence concerning the suspect's behavior, with the evidence coming from any mention of 20 standard visual detection cues prior to the stop, 13 attributes of general appearance and behavior immediately after the stop, and the results of as many as 7 field sobriety tests. Questions concerned driving-under-the-influence cues (scoring sheet), observed traffic violations and actual traffic accidents, the verdict, DWI history, whether the stop resulted from an accident, whether the attorney was public or private, and sanctions that followed the verdict. Also included were demographic questions on age, sex, and ethnicity.

Rate of deaths by age/gender (per 100,000 population) for people killed in crashes involving a driver with BAC =>0.08%, 2012, 2014. 2012 Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). 2014 Source: National Highway Traffic Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2014 Annual Report File. Note: Blank cells indicate data are suppressed. Fatality rates based on fewer than 20 deaths are suppressed.

110-year Miaoli County road traffic accident (drunk driving) - vehicle type and time type (continued completion) (A1 type).xlsx

In 2023, the authorities in Japan reported 112 fatal accidents involving drunk driving, decreasing to a decade low. Fatal accidents were several times as likely to occur when the motor vehicle driver was under the influence of alcohol.

Rate of deaths by age/gender (per 100,000 population) for people killed in crashes involving a driver with BAC =>0.08%, 2012, 2014. 2012 Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). 2014 Source: National Highway Traffic Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2014 Annual Report File. Note: Blank cells indicate data are suppressed. Fatality rates based on fewer than 20 deaths are suppressed.

Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (violating Article 35 of the Road Traffic Management Punishment Regulations) Gender Statistics

Analysis of ‘Occupant and Alcohol-Impaired Driving Deaths in States, 2005-2014’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/cfba2ffc-b7fc-491f-8283-042e1023eb26 on 26 January 2022.

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Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities 2005-2014; All persons killed in crashes involving a driver with BAC >= .08 g/dL. Occupant Fatalities 2005-2014; All occupants killed where body type = 1-79. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2005-2013 Final Reports and 2014 Annual Report File

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Between 2017 and 2022, the number of reported cases of people driving under the influence of drugs was higher each year than people driving under the influence of alcohol in Sweden. Moreover, whereas the number of people reported driving under the influence of alcohol was between 11,000 and 12,000 from 2017 to 2019, it was below 10,000 the following years. In 2022, 12,000 cases of people driving under the influence of drugs were reported.

Estimates of the prevalence and risk of drinking-and-driving are a high-priority need for researchers and policymakers. Levitt and Porter (Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109(6), 1198-1237) demonstrate how these can be recovered using publicly available information in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Although robust to systematic misreporting and sample selection and far cheaper to implement than surveys, their methodological innovations are largely ignored. We believe this arises partly from difficulty in replicating their results. This article identifies the underlying causes of replication failure and offers practical guidance for future implementation that takes advantage of the current structure of the FARS data.

Rate of deaths by age/gender (per 100,000 population) for people killed in crashes involving a driver with BAC =>0.08%, 2012, 2014. 2012 Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). 2014 Source: National Highway Traffic Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2014 Annual Report File. Note: Blank cells indicate data are suppressed. Fatality rates based on fewer than 20 deaths are suppressed.

Mandatory Alcohol Screening (MAS) became law in Canada on December 18, 2018. This amendment to the Criminal Code allowed police to demand a breath test of any driver even in the absence of suspicion or cause. MAS introduced a fundamental change in the approach used by police officers to enforce alcohol-impaired driving laws in Canada. Prior to the introduction of MAS, a police officer could demand that a driver provide a breath sample only if they had reasonable grounds to suspect that the driver had alcohol in their body. Although the threshold for suspicion is not high (the odour of alcohol on a driver’s breath or an admission of drinking is usually sufficient), these are not necessarily the most reliable clues. Police officers vary considerably in their ability to detect the signs and symptoms of alcohol use. Several studies have demonstrated that using typical clues to identify potential drinking drivers (such as the odour of alcohol, bloodshot and/or glassy eyes) can be challenging and can result in many drinking drivers going undetected (Compton, 1985; Wells et al., 1995). The switch from the use of sensory and observational techniques to detect the use of alcohol to a technological approach (i.e., the use of an Approved Screening Device or ASD) to screen drivers for the presence of alcohol was intended to enhance the probability that drinking drivers would be detected and serve to reduce alcohol-related crashes. Research in other countries has demonstrated that when used as part of a comprehensive program that includes intensive and highly visible alcohol checkpoints along with public awareness, MAS serves to enhance general deterrence. It does so by increasing both the perceived and actual probability that drinking drivers will be detected, and by reducing alcohol-involved road crashes (Henstridge et al., 1997; Homel et al., 1995; Ross, 1984). The objective of this project was to provide an indication of the initial impact of MAS by examining data on alcohol-involved driver fatalities, along with other key indicators of impaired driving before and after the introduction of MAS in Canada. It is expected that a reduction in the indicators of impaired driving would be consistent with a general deterrent impact of MAS.