Drunk drivers kill an average of 4.5 people and injure 125 in Canada every 24 hours, each day, every day of the week. Alcohol increases the risk of a vehicular crash.
Alcohol increases the severity of traffic collisions.
When compared to our national homicide rate, drunk driving kills two times the number of Canadians murdered each year. There is estimated to be 4.5 million impaired drivers on Canada's roads every month. One out of five drivers on Canadian roads at night has been drinking and about one in 25 is legally impaired. There is approximately four times the incident rate of fatal crashes at night compared to daytime driving. The trend of hard core drinkers to stop driving after drinking shows no significant change over the last several years.