Study Claims Deaths in the U.S. from Drunk Driving are Under-Reported

A study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs this month claims that the number of deaths from drunk driving in the U.S. are under-reported. When researchers in the study compared numbers from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, not all of the deaths with alcohol involved were in the data.

"Slightly more than 3 percent of death certificates listed alcohol as a contributing cause in fatal traffic crashes. But highway data showed that 21 percent of the people killed in those crashes were legally drunk." The researchers also noted that there is some inconsistency with showing alcohol on death certificates based on which state issued them; some states are more or less likely to include it.

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