Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol 2015

Abstract

From 2011 to 2015, the overall number of alcohol-impaired collisions in Indiana decreased 1 percent annually, with a 5 percent drop between 2014 and 2015. During 2015, there were 86 fatal alcohol-impaired collisions in the state, the lowest number over this five-year period, and represented 11 percent of all fatal collisions. The numbers of non-fatal alcohol-impaired injury collisions decreased slightly during the 2011-2015 period, with injury collisions linked to impaired driving increasing about 2 percent from 2014 to 2015.