Statistics of Impaired Driving
- There are somewhere between 1,350 and 1,600 impaired crash fatalities in Canada each year (3.7-4.4 deaths per day).
- 40% of teenager drivers who are killed in road crashes have been drinking.
- 19 year olds are the most likely to die or suffer serious injuries from a driving accident.
- Males account for 87% of the young fatally injured drinking drivers and 89% of the seriously injured drinking drivers.
- By the time a driver reaches a blood alcohol content of 0.10 he or she is 51 times more likely than a non-drinking driver to be involved in a fatal crash.
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- Young drinking drivers are most likely to be killed or injured in the summer (32.4% and 40.8%) and least likely to be killed or injured in the winter (8.0% and 11.4%).
- In nearly 2/3 of the alcohol involved multiple vehicle crashes it was the fatally injured teen driver who had been drinking and not the other driver.
- Drunk driving accounts for almost 25% of all fatalities on Ontario’s roads.
- Every year, about 17,000 drivers are convicted of Criminal Code of Canada offences (including impaired driving, driving with a blood alcohol concentration of more than 0.08, criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death, manslaughter, dangerous driving and failure to remain at the scene of a collision). It is estimated that approximately three quarters of those convictions are related to drinking and driving.