Drunk Driving on the Rise

May 2005

“During the past month, how many times have you driven when you’ve had perhaps too much to drink?”

This question is asked periodically as part of a random phone survey of about 100,000 Americans over the past decade. Over the years, the amount of people admitting to drunk driving has decreased by about one percent a year. But a recent study by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the number of drunk driving occasions is rising again.

• From 1997 to 1999, the number of times people reported driving after drinking too much increased 37 percent. This amounted to 159 million occasions—and these were only of those who admitted to breaking the law.
• Some of the riskiest alcohol users, binge drinkers, were the most likely to say they had driven while impaired.

For more information about drunk driving, visit the Pennsylvania Drunk Driving Legal Center.

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