Drunk Driving Accident Statistics In Malaysia 2019
Drink driving accidents and casualties in great britain 2016 by time of day.
Drunk driving accident statistics in malaysia 2019. A drunk driver is 13 times more likely to cause an accident compared to a sober one. Number of road accidents in malaysia from 2012 to 2018 in 1 000s. When it comes to fatal car accidents by state most occurred in texas and california during 2018. For more up to date information please see alcohol and drug crashes.
Remember buzzed driving is drunk driving and you can still face legal repercussions if pulled over while buzzed. But we re not just talking about the traffic accidents caused by drunk driving there s are also legal consequences. All these drunk driving related accidents happened in malaysia. National drunk driving facts statistics 2019 driving drunk or under the influence is a criminal offense in all states.
The state with the most accidents last year was selangor with 163 078 cases or 29 7 per cent followed by johor at 78 812 or 14 4 per cent and kuala lumpur at 72 284 or 13 2 per cent. The most common causes of accidents resulting in death are drunk driving 40 speeding 30 and irresponsible driving 33. Alcohol and drugs crash facts contains the 2017 summary of alcohol and drug related crash data including graphs and tables. It seems like every week there is news on a road traffic accident involving a person driving under the influence.
According to a study done by the malaysian institute of road safety research about 23 3 of drivers in fatal accidents were tested positive for alcohol according to this study done in 2012. 2019 drunk driving statistics. The nhtsa reports that almost 29 people die daily in america due to drunk driving. While drunk driving deaths have fallen by in the last 30 years drunk driving.
It was reported that in 2019 malaysia had the third highest fatality rate from road traffic accidents in asia and asean behind thailand and vietnam. Taking recent drunk driving statistics into account it looks like the us risks becoming the leader in this field. The us is the second largest car market in the world and the number of vehicles on the road has been rising steadily since the 1990s. That amounted to one person dead every 50 minutes in 2016.
Some 58 of fatal car accidents involve only one vehicle and 38 are caused by a traffic collision. The global status report on road safety published by the world health organization who and the world bank in december 2018 reported that malaysia had 7 152 deaths in 2016 of which 87 were. In early 2019 the zebra the nation s leading insurance comparison website launched a new survey to identify awareness around drunk driving behavior patterns and beliefs in drivers in the u s.