DUI FATALITIES DOWN NATIONWIDE IN 32 STATES, INCLUDING NEVADA
Encouraging news from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration – National figures released a week ago in the 2007 Traffic Safety Annual Assessment for Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities show a significant decline in the number of drunk driving-related fatalities occurring nationally and in 32 individual states, including Nevada.
For the state of Nevada, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities decreased from 14% from 2006 to 2007. When comparing Nevada’s numbers to the national decrease of 3.7 percent, the figures are even more incredible.
One discouraging national finding from the same report is that the number of alcohol related fatalities among motorcyclists is climbing in half of the states. Fortunately, Nevada also saw a decrease in alcohol related deaths among motorcyclists, but only by 6.3%. Other distressing information from the report is that DUI fatalities accounted for about one-third of the total driving fatalities in Nevada for both 2006 and 2007, at 33% in 2006 and 31% in 2007.
Although the number of deaths caused by drinking and driving on our streets and highways is showing improvement, we’ve still got a long way to go and cannot be satisfied until the numbers hit zero. Please consider the safety of yourself and other drivers and passengers on the road by doing everything in your control to keep intoxicated drivers off our roads.
To see the entire report, visit http://www.nhtsa.gov.
