Epidemiology

Alcohol-Related U.S. Traffic Deaths Down in 1997

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 28th, 1998

The number of people killed in alcohol-related traffic accidents continued a decade-long decline in the United States in 1997, but alcohol was still a factor in 39 percent of traffic deaths, officials said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that 16,189 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic accidents in the United States in 1997, a 6 percent decline from 1996.

Alcohol-related traffic fatalities have declined 32 percent since 1987, when 23,641 people were killed, the CDC said.

"If we look at the 11-year period from 1987 to 1997, we find that the percentage of all motor-vehicle crash deaths that...

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