Table 2-18: Alcohol Involvement in Recreational Boating Accidents: 2009

Table 2-18: Alcohol Involvement in Recreational Boating Accidents: 2009

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State Total number of accidents Accidents with alcohol as a contributing factor
Total number of accidents Percent of state total Persons killed
Alabama 75 10 13.3 4
Alaska 19 4 21.1 3
Arizona 151 9 6.0 1
Arkansas 78 9 11.5 4
California 478 22 4.6 11
Colorado 60 9 15.0 3
Connecticut 56 9 16.1 5
Delaware 16 0 0.0 0
District of Columbia 0 0 0.0 0
Florida 610 33 5.4 17
Georgia 145 12 8.3 3
Hawaii 19 0 0.0 0
Idaho 74 9 12.2 4
Illinois 96 11 11.5 3
Indiana 42 2 4.8 0
Iowa 37 5 13.5 2
Kansas 27 0 0.0 0
Kentucky 62 10 16.1 3
Louisiana 120 23 19.2 17
Maine 44 5 11.4 2
Maryland 174 13 7.5 6
Massachusetts 51 5 9.8 4
Michigan 131 12 9.2 9
Minnesota 82 12 14.6 4
Mississippi 39 2 5.1 2
Missouri 150 11 7.3 3
Montana 20 3 15.0 1
Nebraska 31 6 19.4 2
Nevada 67 6 9.0 1
New Hampshire 60 3 5.0 1
New Jersey 126 4 3.2 1
New Mexico 34 2 5.9 1
New York 148 11 7.4 7
North Carolina 144 13 9.0 5
North Dakota 7 2 28.6 0
Ohio 105 9 8.6 2
Oklahoma 55 3 5.5 3
Oregon 67 5 7.5 1
Pennsylvania 58 6 10.3 2
Rhode Island 50 2 4.0 0
South Carolina 95 5 5.3 0
South Dakota 21 5 23.8 0
Tennessee 117 15 12.8 4
Texas 168 17 10.1 9
Utah 87 1 1.1 0
Vermont 4 1 25.0 0
Virginia 137 7 5.1 2
Washington 111 11 9.9 6
West Virginia 32 3 9.4 1
Wisconsin 102 18 17.6 5
Wyoming 18 2 11.1 1
United States, total (excluding territories) 4,700 397 8.4 165
United States, total (including territories)1 4,730 397 8.4 165

1 Includes accidents in Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and those occurring offshore.

NOTE: Data are based on alcohol use by a boats occupants resulting directly or indirectly in an accident.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Boating Statistics 2009 (Washington, DC: 2010), tables 8 and 29, available at http://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.aspx as of Jun. 22, 2011.