Organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) continue to lobby for all 50 states to pass more strict drunk driving laws, including IID requirements for all offenders. Now 32 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws for all drunk driving offenders. Both Illinois and Iowa passed laws requiring all offenders to have a device installed as part of their drunk driving conviction. Last year, we saw a few states pass laws to help increase driver safety on our roads. Michigan saw the largest increase, with 67 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.Florida saw the largest decrease, with 66 fewer lives lost in alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.21 states saw increases in the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities from 2016.26 states and Puerto Rico saw declines in the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.Vans, utility trucks, pickup, and large truck alcohol-impaired driving fatalities increased from 2016.Passenger car alcohol-impaired driving fatalities decreased by 2.6 percent from 2016.However, 10,874 drunk driving fatalities is a high number - one that must still be reduced.

The data also revealed that drunk driving accounted for 29 percent of those deaths, which means drunk driving remains the leading cause of death on our nation’s roads.Īccording to the report, 2017 marked the lowest percentage of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities since the NHTSA started recording data in 1982. In a recent report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed 37,133 people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes on our nation’s roads in 2017, a 1.8 percent decrease from 2016.

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