Impaired Driving StatisticsYou Drink & Drive. You Lose In 2007, there were 7,780 alcohol-related traffic crashes killing 243 people and injuring 4,889 people. In 2007, someone was killed or injured every 1.7 hours in an alcohol-related crash. Of 2007 alcohol-related traffic crashes in Missouri, 36 percent of the fatalities and 43 percent of the injuries occurred to some other party involved in the crash -- not the drinking driver or pedestrian. Nationally, in 2006, nearly 16,000 people were killed in highway crashes involving a driver or motorcycle operator with an illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. That means there is approximately one fatality every 33 minutes.
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