CBS 46 Atlanta - Georgia's DUI Fatalities SoarGeorgia's DUI Fatalities Soar
Aug 22, 2005, 11:07 PM
ATLANTA (AP) -- Alcohol-related traffic deaths increased by ten percent in Georgia during 2004, compared to a two percent decline nationally.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington released the figures today for fatal crashes involving at least a driver or a motorcycle rider with an illegal blood-alcohol level of point-zero-eight percent or higher.
Nationwide, the government said 12-thousand, 874 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2004, compared with 13-thousand and 96 in 2003.
The agency said that in Georgia, there were 392 such deaths in 2004 and 355 in 2003, an increase of 37.
Several other Southern states -- Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee -- also posted higher fatality numbers. Texas saw a ten percent reduction in its alcohol-related fatalities, accounting for 141 fewer deaths than in 2003.
Bob Dallas, the director of the Governor's Office of Highway Safety, says the rise in the number of DUI deaths in Georgia followed three years of decline in the percentage of alcohol-related fatalities among overall traffic deaths.
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