- The average person metabolizes alcohol at the rate of aboutone drink per hour. Only time will sober a person up. Drinking strong coffee, exercising or taking a cold shower will not help.
- Almost every 90 seconds,a person is injured in a drunk driving crash.
- Every day in America, another 27 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes.
- One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime.
- You are twice as likely to be killed in a drunk driving related crash on the weekend and more than four times more likely to perish at night.
- In fatal crashes in 2011, the highest percentage of drunk drivers was for drivers ages 21 to 24 (32 percent), followed by ages 25 to 34 (30 percent) and 35 to 44 (24 percent).
- An average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times before his first arrest.
- If all 17 million people who admitted to driving drunk had their own state, it would be the fifth largest in the U.S.
-- Centers for Disease Control; National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration