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Drunk driving deaths up, but still below national average

August 21, 2007 By admin

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that Iowa’s percentage increase in the number of people killed in drunken driving accidents is among the highest in the nation — but is still below the national average. The number of alcohol-related driving deaths increased from 117 in 2005 to 148 in 2006 — a 26.5% increase. That’s second to Utah’s 72.5% climb over the same period.

Iowa Department of Transportation spokeswoman, Dena Gray-Fisher, says the five-year trend in Iowa has been going down, and she credits the lowering of the legal level of blood alcohol to zero-point-eight. She says if you compare the five-year average going back to 2002, the numbers are still below where the state was at in 2002. Gray-Fisher says there is some good news in the report.

Gray-Fisher says: "I think what’s very positive is that Iowa’s still the second lowest in the entire country in the percentage of alcohol-related crashes. So Iowa has worked very hard, and I think Iowans are…generally very responsible drivers, but we can still do some more." The national figures were released in conjunction with a drunk driving campaign that begins Friday in Iowa. 

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