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Traffic Safety Facts provide key data on alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2024, indicating serious implications for road safety.
This edition of Traffic Safety Facts summarizes 2024 State alcohol-impaired driving estimates. Key Findings: Of the 39,254 traffic fatalities in 2024 an estimated 11,904 people (30%) were killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes; of the 55,620 drivers in fatal traffic crashes an estimated 11,367 (20%) were alcohol-impaired, ranging from 14 percent (Alaska) to 36 percent (Vermont); based on BAC test results of the 55,620 drivers there were 20,083 (36%) with known BAC test results ranging from 8 percent (Mississippi) to 86 percent (Montana); State alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2024 ranged from a low of 0.16 (Massachusetts) to a high of 0.67 (South Carolina), compared to the national rate of 0.36.
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