BTS | Table 2-25: Fatalities by Highest Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in Highway Crashes

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Table 2-25: Fatalities by Highest Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in Highway Crashes

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	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	^R1999	2000
Total fatalities	43,825	44,599	41,508	39,250	40,150	40,716	41,817	42,065	42,013	41,501	41,717	41,821
Fatalities in alcohol-related crashes	22,716	22,084	19,887	17,858	17,473	16,580	17,247	17,218	16,189	16,020	15,976	16,653
Percent	51.8	49.5	47.9	45.5	43.5	40.7	41.2	40.9	38.5	38.6	38.3	39.8
BAC = 0.00
Number	21,109	22,515	21,621	21,392	22,677	24,136	24,570	24,847	25,824	25,481	25,741	25,168
Percent	48.2	50.5	52.1	54.5	56.5	59.3	58.8	59.1	61.5	61.4	61.7	60.2
BAC = 0.01-0.09
Number	4,604	4,434	3,957	3,625	3,496	3,480	3,746	3,774	3,480	3,526	3,523	3,761
Percent	10.5	9.9	9.5	9.2	8.7	8.5	9.0	9.0	8.3	8.5	8.4	9.0
BAC = 0.10+
Number	18,111	17,650	15,930	14,234	13,977	13,100	13,501	13,444	12,710	12,494	12,453	12,892
Percent	41.3	39.6	38.4	36.3	34.8	32.2	32.3	32.0	30.3	30.1	29.6	30.8

KEY: BAC = blood alcohol concentration; R = revised.

NOTES: BAC values have been assigned by U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration when alcohol test results are unknown. Alcohol-related crashes pertain to the BAC of the driver and nonoccupants struck by motor vehicles. For some years, numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCES:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 1999, DOT HS 808 983 (Washington, DC: December 2000), table 13.

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) query at http://www.fars.nhtsa.dot.gov as of Oct. 22, 2001.