Ch. 1 Reaching Zero: Actions to Eliminate Alcohol-Impaired Driving / National Transportation Safety Board -- ch. 2 Traffic Safety Facts: 2011 Data, Alcohol-Impaired Driving / U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Summary
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has long been concerned about alcohol-impaired driving, which accounts for approximately one-third of all U.S. highway fatalities. In the past several decades, awareness of the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving has increased. Public and private entities focusing on this safety issue have changed social perceptions concerning alcohol-impaired driving; they have also achieved important legislative actions to help reduce it. Due to these efforts, the number of lives lost annually in alcohol-impaired-driver-related crashes declined 53 percent, from
