just in the united states alone an average of 20,000 fatalities a year are alchol related most crashes are earlie morning bar closing time i recently took a class on this this should tell Americans not to drink and drive in one year more people have died from alchol than soldiers have lost their live in Iraq in over 5 years i relly wish Americans would take drinking and driving seriously.
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Yes they happen a lot...
About 40% are related to, although not necessarily caused, by alcohol.
3 die in car crashes and 6 die in other ways related to alcohol
about 70%
How many car crashes happen a year because of alcohol
Alcohol is a factor in about 40-45% of traffic crashes.
41,000 also died in alcohol related car accidents
It's hard to find statistics on all alcohol-related accidents but there are many answers on drink-driving deaths, it seems to be around 14,000 a-year (I think that's in the US). In my personal experience I know of a few instances of alcohol-related deaths, a former boss of mine died recently when he fell down the stairs drunk and a girl from my school fell out of a window also drunk and died.
400000
In 1998, 15,935 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes, an average of one every 33 minutes. These deaths constituted approximately 38.4% of the total 41,471 total traffic fatalities. (NHTSA, 1999)
45,077 deaths, See Related Links, below.
there is about 43443 people killed by car crashes each year there is about 43443 people killed by car crashes each year
According to MADD.org 17,602 people died in alcohol-related accidents.
Walk, don"t run, be cautious- and Gasoline and Alcohol don"t mix. accidents are bad, period.