Six Facts on Motor Vehicle Accidents

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1. One in 10 Canadian drivers admit to driving after drinking too much alcohol on at least one occasion within the past 12 months.
2. Male drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes are nearly twice as likely as female drivers to have been impaired by alcohol at the time.
3. In Canada an estimated 1,500 people die each year as a result of incidents involving impaired drivers.
4. An alcohol-related crash death occurs every 32 minutes somewhere in the United States.
5. Thirty-nine percent of all traffic-related deaths in the US in 2005 were alcohol related.
6. Forty-eight children ages 14 and younger were killed by impaired drivers while walking or riding bicycles in the United States in 2005.