St. Patrick’s Day is one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, and this, unfortunately, means more drunk drivers on the roads. If you plan to drink, plan a sober ride home. Appoint a designated driver, Atlantic County law enforcement officials advised in a Facebook post.St. Patrick’s Day is one of the deadliest times on the nation’s roads. During the 2015-2019 St. Patrick’s Day period (6 p.m. March 16 to 5:59 a.m. March 18), 280 lives were lost in drunk-driving crashes.
- In 2019, drunk driving killed more than 10,000 people in the U.S., and every single one of those deaths was preventable.
- In 2019 alone, 57 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes over the St. Patrick’s Day period.
- Between the hours of midnight and 5:59 a.m. over the St. Patrick’s Day period in 2019, more than half (63%) of crash fatalities involved a drunk driver.
- In 2019, 32 percent of the pedestrians killed in traffic crashes had blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above .08. Arrange for a sober ride or for a sober friend to walk you home.
- Despite the fact that it’s illegal to drive when impaired by alcohol, in 2019, one person was killed every 52 minutes by a drunk driver on the nation’s roads.
Remember that Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving. It is illegal and deadly to drink and drive. For some, even one drink may be one drink too many. Appoint a designated driver.
