2011 Drunk Driving Fatalities by State
By MADD | December 13, 2012| 19 Comments | Filed in: Drunk Driving

Drunk driving deaths dropped 2.5% nationwide last year, but how did your state do?

 State 2010 Drunk Driving Deaths % of Traffic Deaths in 2010 that were Drunk Driving Related 2011 Drunk Driving Deaths % of Traffic Deaths in 2011 that were Drunk Driving Related
         
Alabama 264 31% 259 29%
Alaska 16 28% 21 28%
Arizona 206 27% 215 26%
Arkansas 178 31% 156 28%
California 774 28% 774 28%
Colorado 120 27% 161 36%
Connecticut 119 37% 92 42%
Delaware 37 37% 41 41%
Dist. of Columbia 7 27% 8 30%
Florida 678 28% 716 30%
Georgia 299 24% 277 23%
Hawaii 43 38% 44 44%
Idaho 72 34% 50 30%
Illinois 292 32% 278 30%
Indiana 194 26% 207 28%
Iowa 85 22% 83 23%
Kansas 134 31% 108 28%
Kentucky 168 22% 171 24%
Louisiana 226 31% 226 33%
Maine 40 25% 23 17%
Maryland 154 31% 162 33%
Massachusetts 122 35% 114 34%
Michigan 236 25% 255 29%
Minnesota 128 31% 109 30%
Mississippi 174 27% 149 24%
Missouri 257 31% 258 33%
Montana 72 38% 81 39%
Nebraska 50 26% 45 25%
Nevada 69 27% 70 28%
New Hampshire 45 35% 27 30%
New Jersey 160 29% 193 31%
New Mexico 119 34% 105 30%
New York 360 30% 315 27%
North Carolina 389 29% 365 30%
North Dakota 46 44% 64 43%
Ohio 335 31% 316 31%
Oklahoma 218 33% 220 32%
Oregon 70 22% 97 29%
Pennsylvania 424 32% 407 32%
Puerto Rico 98 29% 101 28%
Rhode Island 27 40% 24 37%
South Carolina 353 44% 315 38%
South Dakota 37 27% 33 29%
Tennessee 288 28% 257 27%
Texas 1,270 42% 1,213 40%
Utah 46 18% 53 22%
Vermont 18 25% 18 33%
Virginia 207 28% 224 29%
Washington 169 37% 156 34%
West Virginia 87 27% 90 27%
Wisconsin 203 36% 196 34%
Wyoming 53 34% 38 28%
         
         
National 10,136 31% 9,878 31%

 

 


   

Comments

Submitted by DUI MASTER at 02:26 PM on February 13, 2013
You can control what is out of your control. Try prohibition again you know you want to. It wont work again. Your lying about your #'s you know that drunk driving rises every year regardless of what you do. you should find another cause.
Submitted by psycho at 12:12 AM on February 11, 2013
Just wondering how do we fix the other 71% of the auto related fatalities? That's damn near 20,000 other ppl dead because of driving. Ban driving, go back to the horse as transportation. Or, eliminate ppl all together, that would probably go a long way in fixing any issue we have.
Submitted by Bird at 05:50 PM on February 10, 2013
Look at that total killed by DUI and they want to ban certain guns. What is wrong with priorities in our country. It's like they want to just ignore MADD if at all possible. I'm a dad and I see this on the news almost every day in a near by city we work in and it makes me so mad. It's like baning other things will put a smoke screen over Drunk Driving.. They really make me sick not putting the laws we have in place. Our Government needs to be overhauled not the laws for the most part.
Submitted by poop at 11:50 PM on January 31, 2013
HAWAII
Submitted by kmartsmart at 11:10 AM on January 23, 2013
drunk driving is stupid my brother died from a drunk driver.
Submitted by Eman at 03:26 PM on January 18, 2013
There is a special Federal Police force just dedicated to Guns, Alcohol, and Drugs. You know how large that task force is? the national force is just under 25k (Source: Colbert Report)
Submitted by FirstResponder at 11:22 AM on January 13, 2013
Please push the fight to get the drunk drivers off the road, zero tolerance. Politicians should be punished when they get pulled over like anyone else. Ask the police, firefighters and EMTs about dealing with it on a regular basis. Why is there even such a thing as a repeat offender? Keeping trying until you kill someone? The gun issue is something completely different and more complex. In Massachusetts we have strict laws and mandatory sentencing yet people commit gun crimes and walk away with suspended sentences or reduced time. The issue is the court system. Stop punishing the legal owners and start punishing criminals.
Submitted by TheRavan at 02:27 AM on December 31, 2012
Fixing the drunk driver problem is an easy fix. The problem is nobody wants to becuase it would effect just about everyone. Let have a very harsh punishement like loss of their drivers license for 10 years and 1 years in jail. It would not take long before people figured out that drunk driving is a bad idea. Parts Europe dont have a problem with it. Also remember that guns dont kill people, people kill people.
Submitted by second nature at 01:20 AM on December 27, 2012
It’s completely understandable why people are so adamant about the ban on certain assault weapons. In the wrong hands they can cause and inflict much damage and chaos. Look at all the current statistics regarding nationwide deaths caused by both violent crimes and adults acting negligently and driving while under the influence of either an alcoholic beverage or that of a thought altering controlled substance. I believe that with as much energy and funds being exerted in trying to ban more weapons in the United States, our elected officials could use the finances and energy in ensuring the safety of our children and family members in the general public and public school system. The money which will be allocated to the further protests against weapons and studies used to show how damaging weapons are; we put those funds back where it belongs, in the cities and hire more Police Officers. Most laws being passed regarding weapon bans are being done so due to some politician’s personal agenda and not based on actual statistics to support the ban. Laws are enacted to keep the honest person honest. The drug dealers, the gang members, the all-around DEGENERATE who truly don’t care for the laws of this country, state, county or city or care one way or another about any given ban. They will and do find the weapons and use them. Build more jails, hire more guards protect our future. Provide mental health assistance to those that need it. Stop using the unnecessary violence and deaths of the poor innocent victims to try and justify your unreasonable bans.
Submitted by bennet at 02:35 PM on December 23, 2012
Why is it still legal to drink and drive? The BAC limits should be 0.00 (or 0.02 to accommodation test and biological error). We need to have a zero tolerance policy...period. Remove the ambiguity that a 0.08 BAC level creates and then you will eliminate all the social drunk drivers. I also am in favor of alcohol sensing devices being made mandatory for all new vehicles sold! Zero Tolerance!
Submitted by warbird at 09:54 AM on December 22, 2012
The statisticss speak for themselves!!! Guns, cars, baseball bats, knives, and other weapons of choice do not suddenly jump up and go on a rampage - people do. I agree that MADD should be at the forefront of educating the nation regarding the deaths caused by drivers who feel it is their right to endanger anyone they please, including innocent children. Curbing drunk driving is not as politically esxpedient as taking a stand on guns. Remember not many legislators have or use guns, but I believe it is safe to say that virtually EVERY legislator has driven under the influence! Until DUI violaters are punished properly, there will be no incentive to not drive under the influence. Same goes for gun users. In 1979 I was disabled by a drunk driver= a small fine and NO punishment! In 2009 I was, again, hit by a drunk driver. This time I nearly died, have had nearly $400,000 in spine surgery and, though the driver was driving on a suspended license (convicted on DUIs) previously), had no insurance, showed no remorse, the area DA let him off with a misdemeanor reckless driving and a small fine. He is back on the road as I write this - nothing has changed!! So much for taking care of violators!!
Submitted by CBY at 12:45 PM on December 19, 2012
ICKYPAL, More people are killed every year by drunk drivers. If our President wants to save lives, ban Alcohol! Timothy McVay killed 168 people with fertilizer! Ban fertilizer! The most commonly used weapon in violent attacks in the U.S. is the baseball bat. Ban baseball bats! Or maybe we could address the real problem. The mental health issues.
Submitted by vIC at 09:41 AM on December 19, 2012
UGH... banning guns makes about as much sense as banning automobiles to prevent drunk driving deaths... the answer is education... just as education is making tremendous impacts in reducing the number of fatalities from drunk driving...
Submitted by acehack1 at 08:46 PM on December 18, 2012
Where is Madd? You have your chance to bring attention to your cause and your wasting it. All this media attention to Gun Control. Your chance to bring to their attention that automobiles kill 50,000 people a year, and you can't stop drunks from getting into them. The media doesn't like to let the public know how many are killed on our highways because it out numbers deaths by guns or our military. Your cause is much more important than Gun Control!!!! Make them listen! This is the time! Don't let us down.
Submitted by Ickypal at 03:23 PM on December 18, 2012
Can you please tell me what that law actually achieved when it was enacted all those years ago - do you have any actual statistics of what a so called "Assault Weapons" ban achieves? Why don't you spend some time fighting for effective identification, treatment and reporting of mental health issues?
Submitted by REALLY at 06:10 PM on December 17, 2012
My thoughts are the nation and president and evry citizen should be talking about the devastation of alohol Especialy drunk driving --cold hard facts thousands mroe are kileed by alcohol realted accidents the ever by guns . Alcohol dethas re much more prventable. Car manufactures inventions of all kinds. God forbid we teach the perils of alcohol use and abuse btu no we glorify drinking and make it cool.
Submitted by yoyo at 10:40 AM on December 17, 2012
so while all of your are flamming the Assult weapons and throwing out stats. here is a couple you should pay attencion to and i will start with the topic at hand "assult weapons" 2011 - 12,644 murders in the US (only 323 were by rifle, this includes ALL RIFLES, assult rifle, single shot, bolt action, and any other rifle you can think of).. source is the FBI crime stats 2011 - 9,878 deaths from alcohols (about 1200 were children under 14 years old, couldnt find a solid number). about 16,000 auto deaths were Texting related between 2007-2011 that is roughly 3200 a year, and if we just as an average call it 50/50 between kids (16-20 yrs old) and adults 21+ thats 1600 each. again i could not find an exact number but these are pretty dam close. I could go on and on and on with numbers and stats but i think we get the picture, lets not count starvation, drugs, physical and mental abuse(which in my opinion are worse then death) All of you people jumping on the band wagon about banning assult weapons need to look at the big picture, you have better odds of knowing someone being in a drunk driving fatality or a Texting while driving fatality, and one more stat... there are more young(under 18) miniority kids killed my hate crime, hand guns, rape, abuse, and completley RANDOM violence in the last year than all of the assult weapons murders for the last 20 years. how many of you band wagon clowns actually care about that? How many are putting in there 2 cents about it? how many are making a stand for them? just a guess but im willing to bet less then 1/2 of .01% of you. One more stat since the AWB has been removed on average gun crime has gone down 3-4% a year. take the crazy guys guns and he drives a truck into a building with a huge bomb like in OK city... just food for thought
Submitted by Ben at 06:32 AM on December 17, 2012
Would like to know how many children died as a result of DD IN 2011.
Submitted by ickypal at 07:08 AM on December 15, 2012
I beg for mothers of MADD to help with the fight of gun control in America. Please assist with banning assault rifles again. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) (or Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act) was a subtitle of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a federal law in the United States that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms, so called "assault weapons". The 10-year ban was passed by Congress on September 13, 1994, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton the same day. The ban only applied to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired on September 13, 2004, as part of the law's sunset provision. There have been multiple attempts to renew the ban, but no bill has reached the floor for a vote.

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