This Week! NHTSA Report Shows Drinking Age Laws Saved 4,441 Lives Over Five Years

This Week!
Friday, January 23, 2009

- NHTSA Report Shows Drinking Age Laws Saved 4,441 Lives Over Five Years
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The following feature has been added to the This Week! section of the
Center's Web site:

The 21-year-old-minimum drinking age laws prevented an estimated 4,441
drunken driving deaths in the last five years alone, according to a new
report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA): "Lives Saved in 2007 by Restraint Use and Minimum Drinking Age
Laws."

The annual data provided in the report have been produced by NHTSA's
National Center for Statistics and Analysis since 1975.

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Received on Fri Jan 23 2009 - 11:01:50 EST