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Of the 43,443 deaths in motor vehicle accidents in 2005, 39 percent, or 16,885, were attributed to alcohol.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Fatality Counts and Estimates of People Injured for 2005," 65, 74, 106, (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, 2006), http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/ncsa/ppt/ 2006/810639.pdf 13 "Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005

In 2001, more than 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape. More than 696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were assaulted by another student who had been drinking.

Ralph W. Hingson et al., "Magnitude of Alcohol-Related Mortality and Morbidity among U.S. College Students Ages 18-24: Changes from 1998 to 2001," Annual Review of Public Health 26 (2005): 267, http://www. collegedrinkingprevention.gov/media/Mag_ and_Prev_ARPH_April_2005.pdf

About four in ten violent crimes against college students were committed by offenders who were perceived by victims to be using drugs or alcohol.

Katrina Baum and Patsy Klaus, "Violent Victimization of College Students, 1995-2002," (Washington, DC: BJS, 2005), 1, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/vvcs02.pdf

Nearly 1.5 million driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) arrests occur in the United States each year.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "Traffic Safety Facts: Laws: Blood Alcohol Concentration Test Refusal Laws," (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation), 1, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/Rulemaking/Articles/ Associated%20Files/07%20BAC%20Test%20 Refusal.pdf (accessed September 13, 2006).

Of the 43,443 people killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2005, 39 percent, or 16,885, were attributed to alcohol.

In 2005, an estimated 233,000 people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present.

Three-fourths (75%) of drivers in fatal crashes who had alcohol present in their system had blood alcohol content (BAC) levels of 0.10 or 0.11, greater than the legal limit in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Twenty-five percent of these drivers had BAC levels of 0.21, which is more than twice the legal limit in all states.

Timothy Pickrell, "Traffic Safety Facts: Research Note: Driver Involvement in Fatal Crashes by Age Group and Vehicle Type," (Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006), 2, http://wwwnrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810598.pdf

The 16,885 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 represent an average of one alcohol-related fatality every 31 minutes.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "Traffic Safety Facts: 2004 Data," (Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006), 1, http://www-nrd. nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004/ 809905.pdf