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Area Statistics

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 Area Statistics

2008 Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities

 
 

  • 1,269 Texans lost their lives to a drunk driver in 2008.  
  • 258 of those people lived in the Southeast Texas Region
  • 20% of all Texans who died in alcohol-related traffic crashes in Texas died in our neighborhood.


 

County

Total Fatalities in MV Traffic Crashes

2005

Alcohol Related

% of Motor Vehicles Fatalities involving alcohol

Austin

8

5

62.5

Brazoria

46

16

34.8

Colorado

6

2

33.3

Ft. Bend

24

6

25.0

Galveston

40

14

35.0

Harris

354

161

45.5

Matagorda

8

7

87.5

Montgomery

67

32

47.8

Waller

19

8

42.1

Wharton

16

7

43.8

 

 

 

 

Total for MADD Southeast Texas Affiliate

588

258

58%

 
 

 

Source 1:  NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis, http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/States/StatesAlcohol.aspx(The above alcohol estimates are obtained using a sophisticated statistical procedure.  State totals in the various BAC and Alcohol-Related categories may not equal sum of county totals due to independent rounding.  Also, percentages as displayed are calculated from unrounded numbers of estimated fatalities and may not equal those calculated form the rounded numbers (especially for counties with very few fatalities).  Missing counties indicate no occurrences of fatalities in that county.

 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 


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