Impaired Driving StatisticsYou Drink & Drive. You Lose In 2008, 262 people were killed, 1113 seriously injured and 3398 received minor injuries in the 7,784 alcohol-related crashes. In 2008, someone was killed or injured every 1.8 hours in an alcohol-related crash. Of 2008 alcohol-related traffic crashes in Missouri, 32 percent of the fatalities and 42 percent of the injuries occurred to some other party involved in the crash -- not the drinking driver or pedestrian. Nationally, in 2007, nearly 13,000 people were killed in highway crashes involving a driver or motorcycle operator with an illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher.
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