Virginia car insurance and DUI Laws in Virginia are not the most popular discussion themes in the Garden State. Most of the people prefer to talk more about the Nets or such topics regardless that it is something that affects them greatly. Of course it gets boring talking about that after a while even if such conversation is started. Not to mention that it hurts some people to talk about that, especially if they are caught and convicted for driving while intoxicated. The fines are not that hurts them the most but what the conviction does to their car insurance premiums. Here follow some interesting fact and statistics on that topic.
– According to official statistics, every 40 minutes someone is killed as a result of driving whie intoxicated.
– DWI is the cause for around one third of all traffic fatalities in the US.
– Roughly three out of ten Americans will be in some way involved in an alcohol related traffic accident in some point of their life.
– In 2007 over 1.4 million of drivers in the United States were arrested for DWI of alcohol or narcotics. This is just one percentage of the around 159 million self-reported episodes of driving intoxicated in 2007.
– The DWI law in all U.S. States says that a driver can be considered legally drunk when her or his blood alcohol content is at least 0.08 grams per deciliter or above. For a grown man that weighs around 170 pounds to reach that level needs to consume four drinks in 60 minutes while a woman that weighs around 140 pounds needs to have at least three drinks in one hour on an empty stomach.
– In order the human body to completely eliminate alcohol from its system it needs around six hours to achieve that. That is if the blood alcohol level is 0.08%.
– With some people 0.02% BAC can significantly affect their driving ability and response time. The odds to crash into something largely increase after 0.05% and rise even more after 0.08%.
– It’s a known fact that the alcohol dilutes in the water volume of the human body in order to go through it. The vital organs such as the brain are very vulnerable to its effects.
– Driver who has consumed no alcohol has 11 times less chances to be involved in a traffic accident than a driver who has BAC of 0.08%.
– Around 75% of all fatal traffic car accidents in which drunk driver is involved happen between midnight and 3 a.m.
– In 2007, 50% of all drunk drivers involved in fatal car accidents had a BAC level that was 0.15%, almost twice of the allowed limit.
– There is a much bigger chance to be tested for alcohol during the night than during the day. During 2007, 36% of the drivers that were involved in night time fatal car accidents were legally drunk as oppose to only 9% of the drivers during daytime crashes.
– Motorcycle drivers are the most common type of drivers that are involved in fatal drunk driving accidents. In 2007, around 27% of all accidents included drunken motorcycle driver.
– Around 75% of the drunk drivers involved in fatal car accidents don’t have their safety belts on.
– According to a research, in average every first time DWI offender has driven around 80 times before being arrested.
– There are twice as more chances for alcohol related car accident to occur during the weekend than during the week. 15% of the drivers involved in fatal car accidents during the week are legally drunk while around 31% are legally drunk on the weekend.
– Other than alcohol, cocaine and marijuana are the most common illegal drugs involved in fatal car accidents. In most of the cases they are used in combination with alcohol.
– DWI and DUI are the most common acronyms used by the authorities to describe drunken driving. DWI stands for driving while intoxicated while DUI stands for driving under the influence and can refer to use of other substances such as illegal drugs.
– According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration beer is the most common beverage involved in fatal traffic accidents as well as in DWI arrests.
– There is 50% bigger chance men to be involved in driving while intoxicated or in a fatal car accident than women.
– All of the states in the country have the same zero tolerance law for drivers under the age of 21.
– In 2006, around 20% of all sixteen to twenty year old drivers that were killed in motor vehicle car accidents were legally drunk.
– Candice Lightner formed Mothers against Drunk Driving in 1980 in Irving, Texas. That is one of the most famous political action groups fighting alcohol impaired driving. She started the organization after her daughter was a victim in a traffic accident caused by a drunken driver.
– New York has the least amount of drunken driving fatalities in the country, with 2.06 per 100.000 residents.
– Wyoming has the most fatalities as a result of DUI driving, with 13 drunken driving fatalities per 100.000 residents every year.
– The deadliest drunken driving car accident in the history of the United States happened in 1988 in Kentucky when a drunken driver that had 0.24 BAC level caused an accident with a school bus. As a result of the crash 27 people were killed, from which most of them were children, and additional 34 were injured.
– There was a study that showed that 50% to 75% of all drunk drivers that have suspended licenses because of DWI continued driving regardless of that.
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