• Someone is killed by a drunk driver every 45 minutes.
• In 2008, about 11,773 people died in drunk driving related crashes—a decline of 9.8 percent from the 13,041 drunk driving related fatalities of 2007.
• About three in every 10 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives.
• Fifty to 75 percent of drunk drivers whose licenses are suspended continue to drive.
• Since 1980, the year MADD was founded, alcohol-related traffic fatalities have decreased nearly 50 percent, from over 30,000 to under 15,500 and the actions of MADD have helped save over 383,000 lives.
• People other than the intoxicated drivers paid $71.6 billion of the alcohol-related crash costs, 63 percent of the total cost of these crashes.
• A first-time drunk driving offender has, on average, driven drunk 87 times prior to being arrested.
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