Drunk Driving Facts on Thanksgiving Eve!

Thanksgiving Eve is the second biggest party night of the year. Everyone that you went to high school with is back home to visit family for Thanksgiving and is planning on getting drunk at the local bar with old friends. Most of the people that read this will drink on Thanksgiving Eve, just do it responsibly. No matter where you are, you can get a cab. It’s worth it! Make sure you know which one’s of your friends or family members will be sober so that they can pick you up in any emergency situations.

A person's chances of being involved in a drunk driving accident increase dramatically after every two beers they drink. At the point when you have reached a six pack, your chances of being in a drunk driving accident are up to 44%. With this and other drunk driving facts in mind, think before the you pick up the keys.

Here are some facts about Drunk Driving:

• One person is killed every half-hour due to drunk driving

• Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes

• Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities

• Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash

• Over 40% of fatal automobile accidents are alcohol-related

• Approximately 30% of Americans will be in an accident involving alcohol

• According to estimates, someone is injured in an alcohol-related accident every two minutes

• Accidents involving alcohol are more likely to occur at night… about five times more likely

• About two-thirds of DUI convictions are for first time offenders

• Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash

• More than one-third of all fatal traffic accidents involve at least one person with a BAC over0.08%.

Do you still think you can dodge the drunk driving bullet? Drunk driving facts do not lie. Do what you can to avoid becoming a statistic.