State Executive Director Emily Tompkins for MADD fills in KGNU’s Nikki Kayser. Enforcement has lower numbers of deaths. Women offenders are on the rise.
On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 45 minutes. In 2008, an estimated 11,773 people died in drunk driving related crashes—a decline of 9.8 percent from the 13,041 drunk driving related fatalities of 2007.
About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives.
Fifty to 75 percent of drunk drivers whose licenses are suspended continue to drive.
