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Florida The 9th Lowest In Drunken Driving Deaths

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By VALERIE KALFRIN

vkalfrin@tampatrib.com

Published: December 1, 2008

TAMPA - Count Florida among states with a low percentage of deaths from drunken driving.

Utah had the lowest percentage of traffic deaths involving drunken drivers - 17.1 percent - while North Dakota had the highest, 47.7 percent, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving's "State Progress Report" for 2007.

Florida ranked ninth, with 27.7 percent.

MADD ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia using federal highway traffic crash data. The group released the report last week to coincide with Thanksgiving, which begins a deadly season on the nation's roads. In 2007, nearly 1,500 people nationwide were killed in crashes involving drunken drivers between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, according to MADD.

In each of the 50 states, a person is presumed intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08.

Other states with the lowest percentages of traffic deaths involving drunken drivers are Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, New Hampshire, Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey and Idaho.

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