Drunk Driving in American Cities

A Look at Proportional Traffic Fatalities and Intoxication in the 25 Most Populous U.S. Cities The 25 Most Populous Cities :1 in the United States Fatal Traffic Crashes per 1,000 People (all FARS accidents 2001 - 2010) Fatal Traffic Crashes Involving Intoxication per 1,000 People (all intoxication-related FARS accidents 2001 – 2010) Rate of Fatal Crashes Involving Intoxication (FARS accidents 2001 - 2001) (2011 population estimates, Wikipedia) New York Detroit 1.53 Detroit Denver 8,244,910 0.53 54.2% Los Angeles 3,819,702 Jacksonville Jacksonville Houston 1.37 0.50 46.8% Chicago 2,707,120 Memphis 1.26 Houston Chicago 44.1% 0.50 Houston Dallas Phoenix Phoenix 2,145,146 1.16 0.49 42.5% Philadelphia 1,536,471 Phoenix Dallas Dallas 1.15 0.48 41.4% Phoenix 1,469,471 San Diego Houston Denver 1.07 0.43 41.0% San Antonio Fort Worth Austin Austin 1,359,758 0.85 0.31 40.3% San Diego 1,326,179 Indianapolis Fort Worth Charlotte 0.85 0.31 39.6% Dallas 1,223,229 San Antonio San Antonio Seattle 0.83 0.27 38.1% San Jose 967,487 Denver Indianapolis San Jose 10 0.79 0.26 37.0% Jacksonville 827,908 Austin Charlotte Jacksonville 0.76 0.26 36.7% Indianapolis 827,609 Columbus San Diego Fort Worth 12 0.66 0.26 35.9% Austin 820,611 Charlotte Chicago 0.25 Columbus 0.66 35.9% San Francisco 812,826 El Paso Columbus 0.24 Detroit 34.7% 0,64 Columbus 797,434 Los Angeles Los Angeles Los Angeles 15 15 0.64 0.22 34.3% Fort Worth 758,738 El Paso El Paso 16 Baltimore 0.64 0.22 33.8% Charlotte 751,087 San Diego Baltimore 17 Baltimore 0.62 0.21 33.4% Detroit 706,585 Philadelphia 0.62 Memphis 18 San Francisco 0.19 32.7% Philadelphia El Paso 665,568 Washington San Antonio 19 0.60 0.17 32.2% Memphis 652,050 Indianapolis 30.7% Chicago Seattle 0.57 0.17 Boston 625,087 Philadelphia San Francisco San Jose 0,44 0.16 28.1% Seattle Washington 0.16 Boston Seattle 620,778 0.44 27.9% Denver San Jose San Francisco Washington 26,4% Baltimore 619,493 New York New York Boston 0.34 0.09 16.3% Washington 617,996 New York Boston Memphis 14.7% 0.33 0.06 John Nelson | uxblog.idvsolutions.com IDV Solutions| www.idvsolutions.com data Population 2011 | wikipedia.org "us cities" City Boundaries | census.gov "place" Fatal Crashes 01-10* | www.nhtsa.gov/FARS *those including coordinate locations