CHP Stats Show That Female DUI Arrests in San Diego County are on the Rise
An August 8 article in the San Diego News Examiner reports that the FBI, the California Highway Patrol, and the US Department of Transportation just released statistics that show that he number of female DUI offenders seems to be on the rise. While arrests for DUI in southern California overall have declined over the past decade, the trend lines for women DUI in San Diego have gone the other way.
Per the CHP, women between the ages of 18 and 24 caused 110 injury DUI crashes -- up from 49 a decade ago. Younger female drivers -- under 20 years old -- caused 100 fatal or injury DUI accidents. According to the FBI, in 2007, women accounted for nearly one out of every five DUI arrests -- that’s up significantly from the 1990s, when women accounted for less than 14% of all DUIs.
The San Diego News Examiner article also reported that a report put together by the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation found that alcohol related accidents and secondary costs from those accidents leach $130 billion from the US economy annually.
There is a silver lining, however. The US Department of Transportation found that fatalities stemming from DUI accidents have steadily declined this decade. They reached their lowest number -- 11,773 -- in 2008. Early statistics from 2009 confirm this downward movement. And while female San Diego DUI incidents seem to be on the rise, male DUI cases seem to be on the wane.
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