Innocent Victims of Drinking Drivers

According to MADD, each year there are 1,100,000,000 episodes of a drinking person driving & 123,000,000 episodes of a drunk person driving.

The figures on the chart below equate to only 1 innocent death for every 375,000 episodes of a drinking driver using our roads.

In perspective, you are:
28.77 times more likely to be killed by a sober driver
13.52 times more likely to die from a fall
8.52 times more likely to be poisoned
4.57 times more likely to die from an injury at work
3.66 times more likely to drown
2.92 times more likely to choke to death
2.34 times more likely to die while under a doctor’s care

INNOCENT VICTIMS of drinking drivers at various Blood Alcohol levels (BAC)
(Does not include the drinking driver*). The legal limit in all states is BAC .08
*Why exclude the drinking drivers that were killed? MADD & our government agencies call these drinking drivers violent criminals.
That is a harsh judgment, but it is true that they are hardly innocent victims.

Innocent Victims in 2002	BAC .01-.08	BAC .08-.09	BAC .10-.11	BAC .12-.13	BAC .14-.15	BAC .15 & up	Total Innocent Victims
TOTAL USA	231	197	311	335	362	1493	2932
Alabama	0	1	3	3	1	24	32
Alaska	0	0	1	1	1	2	5
Arizona	3	2	9	1	8	19	42
Arkansas	5	3	10	7	6	22	53
California	42	33	35	33	53	151	347
Colorado	1	0	4	8	10	35	58
Connecticut	1	1	3	4	3	14	26
Delaware	0	0	1	0	2	2	5
District of Columbia	0	0	0	2	1	1	4
Florida	26	33	29	34	38	152	312
Georgia	10	11	8	9	15	52	105
Hawaii	2	1	2	3	1	3	12
Idaho	0	0	1	1	0	15	17
Illinois	21	15	16	14	16	81	163
Indiana	4	4	10	7	8	33	66
Iowa	1	0	8	3	1	15	28
Kansas	1	1	4	4	0	16	26
Kentucky	10	7	7	5	6	30	65
Louisiana	3	0	13	15	3	43	77
Maine	0	3	0	3	1	3	10
Maryland	3	5	6	8	10	15	47
Massachusetts	1	2	0	2	1	8	14
Michigan	3	0	16	8	13	47	87
Minnesota	9	0	4	8	12	22	55
Mississippi	3	1	9	8	8	34	63
Missouri	5	13	5	16	14	36	89
Montana	0	0	2	5	2	17	26
Nebraska	5	6	7	1	3	11	33
Nevada	0	0	4	3	2	33	42
New Hampshire	1	1	0	2	1	7	12
New Jersey	2	1	2	1	4	12	22
New Mexico	4	0	4	2	3	13	26
New York	4	0	4	3	5	24	40
North Carolina	9	6	6	3	4	15	43
North Dakota	2	0	3	3	1	2	11
Ohio	0	0	13	19	18	54	104
Oklahoma	3	2	1	2	3	13	24
Oregon	5	1	4	8	1	16	35
Pennsylvania	4	0	3	6	12	51	76
Rhode Island	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
South Carolina	3	1	3	5	4	21	37
South Dakota	1	3	2	4	7	12	29
Tennessee	6	3	6	8	5	30	58
Texas	21	26	18	28	28	152	273
Utah	0	4	3	2	3	15	27
Vermont	0	0	2	1	0	4	7
Virginia	3	0	1	0	1	19	24
Washington	3	6	6	6	11	29	61
West Virginia	3	0	3	7	5	12	30
Wisconsin	1	0	7	8	5	47	68
Wyoming	0	1	3	1	2	7	14

Speeding, road conditions, bad weather, deer, or mechanical failure may have caused the accident, especially in the low BAC cases.
These other factors are never considered by MADD in their rush to panic the public with unrealistically high victim numbers.

Some groups would hold a passenger who rides with a drinking driver responsible for his actions and therefore not an innocent victim.
The numbers on the chart would be even lower if those passengers who died while riding with a drinking driver were included.

Even using MADD's absurd total death figure of 18,000/year, there would be only one death for every 61,000 drinking driver episodes.

85% of the innocent victims are killed by drivers with blood alcohol levels over .10

SOURCE: www.ridl.us . Visit this excellent website for more accurate statistics on drinking & driving