{"id":3587,"date":"2014-12-17T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scramsystems.com\/blog\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:51:37","slug":"nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA Releases 2013 Drunk Driving&#160;Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/About+NHTSA\/Press+Releases\/2014\/SaferRide-app-and-new-data-highlight-holiday-drunk-driving-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> (NHTSA)\u00a0show that drunk driving deaths in the United States are once again headed in the right direction. The latest data attributes 10,076 deaths in 2013 to intoxicated driving\u2014a 2.5% decline from 2012. And December 2013 saw the fewest number of drunk driving deaths during the year\u2014a surprising shift given that historically the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.scramsystems.com\/holiday-drinking-and-duis-sober-days-resources-from-scram\">holiday season is the deadliest time on the roads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decline is welcome news after deaths from alcohol-involved crashes rose in 2012 for the first time in nearly a decade. However, the 2013 numbers are still above the 2011 totals, when annual <a href=\"http:\/\/responsibility.org\/drunk-driving\/drunk-driving-fatalities-national-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drunk driving fatalities dipped below 10,000<\/a> for the first time since NHTSA began keeping&#160;track.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 statistics were announced by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx during the launch of NHTSA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/StopImpairedDriving\">\u201cDrive Sober or Get Pulled Over\u201d<\/a> holiday crackdown. Between December 15 and January 1, many jurisdictions are adding extra DUI patrols and checkpoints in response to the surge in drunk driving that comes with the holidays. NHTSA is expected to release more details about the 2013\u00a0figures at a later&#160;date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.scramsystems.com\/7-leading-trends-in-alcohol-testing-technologies-white-paper?utm_source=sobering%20up&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=7%20trends%20white%20paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trands-wp-download.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics\u00a0from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)\u00a0show that drunk driving deaths in the United States are once again headed in the right direction. The latest data attributes 10,076 deaths in 2013 to intoxicated driving\u2014a 2.5% decline from 2012. And December 2013 saw the fewest number of drunk driving deaths during the year\u2014a surprising shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[225,237,247,296,349,368,520,614],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drunk-driving","category-societal-costs","tag-drive-sober-or-get-pulled-over","tag-drunk-driving-2","tag-dui","tag-feature","tag-holiday-season","tag-impaired-driving","tag-nhtsa","tag-secretary-anthony-foxx"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NHTSA Releases 2013 Drunk Driving Statistics | Sobering Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2013 statistics were announced by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx during the launch of NHTSA\u2019s \u201cDrive Sober or Get Pulled Over\u201d holiday crackdown.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NHTSA Releases 2013 Drunk Driving Statistics | Sobering Up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2013 statistics were announced by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx during the launch of NHTSA\u2019s \u201cDrive Sober or Get Pulled Over\u201d holiday crackdown.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sobering Up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SCRAMx\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-17T16:36:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-26T17:51:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sobriety-checkpoint.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sobering Up Administrator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@scramsystems\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@scramsystems\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sobering Up Administrator\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sobering Up Administrator\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d81eb856e7b30e26591614b66cb58512\"},\"headline\":\"NHTSA Releases 2013 Drunk Driving&#160;Statistics\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-17T16:36:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-26T17:51:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nhtsa-releases-2013-drunk-driving-statistics\/\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over\",\"drunk driving\",\"dui\",\"feature\",\"holiday season\",\"impaired driving\",\"NHTSA\",\"Secretary Anthony Foxx\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Drunk &amp; 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