The Real Drunk Driving Crisis: America's Riskiest States
Rates reflect alcohol impaired driving fatalities per 100,000 residents in each state, calculated by dividing each state's total alcohol impaired driving deaths in 2024 by its 2024 population and multiplying by 100,000. Alcohol impaired refers to crashes involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 grams per deciliter or higher. Ranking by rate rather than raw count adjusts for the fact that larger states naturally record more total fatalities, allowing for a fairer comparison of relative risk across states of different sizes.