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The DWI court should select a target population that possesses significant criminal and substance dependency histories and strive to alter those behaviors that present a clear danger to their respective communities. The target population must be of sufficient size to have community impact, yet be modest enough to allow DWI courts to provide participants the […]
The goal of the traffic safety community remains unchanged each year: eliminate all fatalities on our roadways. Regardless of individual areas of focus, each organization and agency that operates within the highway safety sphere seeks to decrease the number of lives lost each year to preventable crashes. The ultimate goal of reaching zero lives lost […]
The Problem: As drunk driving has declined, drugged driving is increasing. In 2005, 28% of fatally-injured drivers with known test results were positive for the presence of drugs; by 2009 that number rose to 33%. In 2015, 43% of fatally-injured drivers with known test results were found to be positive for drugs. The 2013-2014 National […]
A growing number of Americans report that they use marijuana. Most states now allow the use of marijuana for treatment of medical conditions. Ten states and the District of Columbia, representing a quarter of the U.S. population, have decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana, and other states are considering following suit. As the opportunity for […]
Alcohol-impaired driving is the deadliest and costliest danger on the nation’s roads, with approximately one-third of all traffic deaths in the United States caused by drinking and driving. One person dies in an alcohol-impaired driving crash every 49 minutes—that is 29 people each day. In 2016, 10,497 deaths were caused by alcohol-impaired driving—the largest single […]
Marijuana-impaired driving is becoming more of a road safety issue. So, NHTSA and the Ad Council have joined forces to launch their first joint drug-impaired driving prevention campaign. This new national public service announcement (PSA) initiative aims to change the cultural conversation around driving after using marijuana so it’s seen as a universally unacceptable behavior, just as these partners previously […]
Large trucks, automobiles and other vehicles share the nation’s highways and surface streets, accumulating more than 3 trillion vehicle-miles-traveled each year. Of these miles, drivers of large trucks accumulate more than 180 billion miles in order to move the nation’s freight and earn their living. To operate a large truck, drivers must hold a commercial […]
The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility provides alcohol statistics and laws by state. Simply select the state you wish to view from the drop-down menu and view statistics about impaired driving and underage drinking.
St Patrick’s Day is one of the deadliest holidays on our nation’s roads. During the 2013-2017 St Patrick’s Day holiday period (6 pm March 16 to 5:59 am March 18), 234 lives were lost due to drunk-driving crashes. Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving In 2017, drunk driving killed more than 10,000 people in our country, […]
Monash University research examined the effect of recreational cannabis sales (RCS) on traffic fatalities in three US states where it was legalised—Colorado (legalised 2014), Washington (2014), and Oregon (2015), and nine neighbouring jurisdictions from 2009-2016. The researchers looked at the number of additional deaths each month after legalisation, and found there was on average one […]