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Impaired driving is a risky behavior that causes many injuries and fatalities every year. The most common example of impairment is being under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This impairment can cause a driver to have slower reaction time, diminished vision, reduced coordination, and impaired judgement. Impaired driving is slightly higher in rural areas and also has a higher rate of fatalities than in urban areas.
This section provides effective methods to help prevent fatalities and injuries from impaired driving.
This rural/urban comparison provides: an overview time of day speeding alcohol restraint use rollover crashes driver characteristics nonoccupants fatalities by ... [ Read More » ]
The Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths website features one of their county Safe Ride Programs. The Isanti County “SafeCab” program, which hwas started in 2003, i ... [ Read More » ]
“Drugged driving has been increasingly recognized as a priority in the past decade. Growing discussions among Federal government agencies regarding public ... [ Read More » ]
NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis has been producing annual estimates of lives saved since 1975. This fact sheet contains finding for 2015 b ... [ Read More » ]
This Research Note provides a brief overview of the 2015 fatal crash picture using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Ana ... [ Read More » ]
“The purpose of this study was to quantify the prevalence of marijuana involvement in fatal crashes in the state of Washington in years 2010 – 2014 and ... [ Read More » ]
“This report presents the methods for the AAA Foundation’s eighth annual Traffic Safety Culture Index (a nationally representative survey, to begin to a ... [ Read More » ]
This website is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s communication resource for States, partner organizations, and highway safety profess ... [ Read More » ]
In this fact sheet, the 2013 rural and urban information is presented in the following order: Overview Time of Day Speeding Alcohol Restraint Use Rollover Cras ... [ Read More » ]
Local and Rural Road Safety Briefing Sheets: Behavioral Safety Strategies for Drivers on Rural Roads
This document describes the types of risky driving behaviors evident in rural areas and presents a summary of strategies that can be used to address these behav ... [ Read More » ]
“This national report summarizes findings from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on trends in the behavioral health of people aged 1 ... [ Read More » ]
Traffic Safety Facts 2012 Data: Rural/Urban Comparison
This fact sheet contains a rural/urban comparison of statistics on motor vehicle fatal crashes based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). ... [ Read More » ]
Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention: A Winnable Battle
Motor vehicle crashes affect all Americans. Each year, traffic crashes kill nearly 40,000 people and injure another four million severely enough to require emer ... [ Read More » ]