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This Map Shows 10 Years of Traffic Fatalities Due to Drunk Driving

Dec. 31, 2012 11:08am

Police departments across the country are gearing up for a late night this December 31st, one on which they’ll especially be on the lookout for drunk drivers.

Looking at 10 years worth of data reveals that some areas of the country are more prone to traffic fatalities due to intoxicated driving than others.

10 Years of Traffic Fatalities Color Coded With Percent Due to Intoxicated Driving

(Image: John Nelson/IDV Solutions)

John Nelson with IDV Solution’s UX Blog who created the map said that he was both surprised by the percentage of fatalities where alcohol was a factor and how it varied regionally.

“This map is an effort to better understand the geographic characteristics of these events, particularly the regional dimension that that intoxication plays [...],” Nelson wrote. ”It turns out, some areas are much more well behaved in this regard than others.”

Here’s how Nelson described putting together the map:

The hexagonal mesh is one way of more fairly visualizing highly overlapping, highly clustered, data (pretty much wringing point data into a polygon choropleth map where ratios can be calculated).  The nature of our population distribution and our transportation infrastructure leads to traffic fatality data points that are highly stacked upon each other.  Each of these incidents represents a horrible event and to paint in the raw data in a way that would obscure them would be unfortunate -and ineffective.  The mesh carves up the country into a baseline set of place-buckets (more uniform than political boundaries) of roughly equal size into which the overall number of fatal crashes is aggregated, and within which a rate of intoxication can be shown.

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How to be true to the underlying population?  Once the overall number of events within each zone is added up, the visual for that zone can be scaled accordingly (a way of un-biasing the uneven populations) so that areas with lots of events appear larger and areas with fewer events appear smaller -and areas with no events disappear entirely.

10 Years of Traffic Fatalities Color Coded With Percent Due to Intoxicated Driving

(Image: John Nelson/IDV Solutions)

Here’s a close up of the map’s key:

10 Years of Traffic Fatalities Color Coded With Percent Due to Intoxicated Driving

(Image: John Nelson/IDV Solutions)

To be clear, the map as a whole does not show only traffic fatalities due to intoxication. It is color coded to show the percentage of traffic fatalities due to drunk driving.

As Nelson put it, “the coloration of the zones is tied to the rate of events that involved intoxication.”

Nelson pointed out some areas have “impressively” low rates of traffic fatalities due to intoxicated driving, like Memphis and Manhattan, while other areas like St. Louis and “pretty much all of South Carolina” have high rates.

Find more about the maps, including larger, more detailed sizes on Nelson’s blog here.

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Comments (98)

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:00pm

    Well, nothing more to do but ban cars…..oh, sorry, that mindset only works on guns.

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    • Proverbs17-12NLT
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Looks like democrat ran states are the worst offenders

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      Proverbs17-12NLT  
    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Ban BOOZE!

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      LeadNotFollow  
    • banjarmon
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:55pm

      Ban cars…then make a map of people being killed by being kicked in the head by a mule!!

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      banjarmon  
    • Kregneva
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:52pm

      Well, the map does not show how many average Bush deaths there were for their 6 years VS Obama deaths for the last 4 years. I heard Laura Bush killed someone with a car by running a red light, and that G. W. had a DWI moving violation. Because of the tremendous Chicago Thug Lobby, we have not heard anything about Barack or Michelle Obama or their daughters, but BO used to be a Senator who was seen often with Ted Kennedy, who is a car murdering legend. Of course all Americans are car freaks.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:38pm

      Does it seem to be a correlation of blue states in there with the high incidence of drunk driving deaths ?

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      yougottabekidding  
    • SocialismSuxEveryday
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:51pm

      Can’t ban cars… just ban any that go over 10 miles an hour. Hard for even a drunk to hit anyone at 10 miles an hour. Can’t do anything about bad behavior so “cars kill people, people don’t kill people”

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      SocialismSuxEveryday  
    • Fecal_Matters
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:25pm

      I think we need a National Registry, Finger Printing, and Cavity Searches…where is that battleaxe Feinstein on this. I think we also need to ban anything over an airplane size booze bottle too<<< The Midget King Mike Bloomberg and his pocket pool boy Ray Ray would like that! No grandfather clause. You all need to come clean…turn yourself in now!

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:53pm

      Okay, Kregneva -

      A few facts just to stop the rumors.

      1. Laura Welch Bush was involved in an automobile fatality. She ran a stop sign in November of 1963 and hit another vehicle. A friend of hers in that other vehicle died. She never denied responsibility for the accident, never tried to hide it. She also was never charged in incident.

      2. Laura Bush did not meet her future husband, George W. Bush until 1977, some 14 years after the accident that claimed the life her of friend.

      3. On September 4, 1976, George W. Bush was arrested near his family’s summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, for driving under the influence of alcohol. He gave up alcohol in 1986.
      To the best of my knowledge, that information has always been freely available and never hidden.

      I am not sure what kind of information you are looking for when you requested information about the number of “Bush deaths for their 6 years” vs. the “Obama deaths for 4 years”.

      George W. Bush was president for 8 years. Obama has been president for 4 years. It’s unclear to me where the 6 years would come from. One could compare the two first terms against one another, but much would depend on the definition of “deaths”, since 9/11 happened when Bush had only been in office a few months. If you are looking at drunk driving fatalities as the cause of death during a specific Presidential term, that data could be compared. But to what end?

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      Taquoshi  
    • Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:06pm

      “Looking at 10 years worth of data reveals that some areas of the country are more prone to traffic fatalities due to intoxicated driving than others.”

      No, wait! It’s … CELLPHONES … that cause more car crashes than any other factor (at least, that’s how “they” characterized it to passed their creeping-tyranny anti-cellphone laws).

      WAKE UP, FREE MEN OF AMERICA. This is YOUR COUNTRY, NOT THEIRS.

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      Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee  
    • NLN
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:33am

      The drunks are the ones that walk away from an accident unharmed. Make a law you have the be drunk to drive a car. Problem solved. (Libs way of thinking.)

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      NLN  
    • SocialismSuxEveryday
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:15pm

      @Kregneva – The Bush history is easy to find… not so with Bam Bam. Commies cover their tracks better.

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      SocialismSuxEveryday  
  • Starkadder
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:51pm

    The problem as I see it is that DUI is a crime that judges, politicians, police, attorneys and prosecutors commit on a fairly regular basis.
    Its hard to get them to be tough on themselves.
    A few years back we had a police officer so intoxicated he struck an occupied vehicle. Instigated a chase through town where he hit and run 5 parked vehicles. The chase only stopped when his SUV was blocked in by civilians. When his co-workers arrived, they gave him a citation and a ride home. They even had an on duty officer drive his SUV home for him so he wouldn’t have to pay impound.
    THAT’S RIGHT !! they gave a ticket and a ride home.
    I’d have been tazed, cuffed and stuffed.
    The dude didn’t even get arrested, he got a ticket.
    We eventually got HIM fired but the officers who let him walk are still on patrol.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:33pm

    Looks like most of the drunks are on the coast & the DC area. Union areas.

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    jessieH  
  • Shaqfuey
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:24pm

    I’m not condoning DUI in any way, but this map confuses me – More people die yearly from non-alcohol related traffic accidents, yet the “yellow” representing 0% seems to be absent. Looks like the data is purposely being skewed to produce the desired effect. It saddens me that even The Blaze and their righteous quest for truth feel they need to lie to protect us.

    Be safe this NYE and every day.

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  • Frodo RinosBane
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Obviously, NYC should ban automobiles. Anyone outside NY driving near NY license plates knows that would be for the best.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:06pm

    beat the sh– out of drunk drivers.

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    jungle J  
    • P8riot
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:23pm

      exactly. victims of drunk drivers are truly innocent victims.

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      P8riot  
  • P8riot
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:04pm

    I’ll sum up all their data in just 8 words:

    Anyone who drinks and drives is an idiot.

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    P8riot  
  • thibx
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

    ban liquor, drugs, guns, cars, planes, fat foods, soda,cigarettes, cigars, snuff, games, movies, theater,hoodies, ear muffs, bikini, mini skirts, high heels, low cut dresses, fake nails, football, baseball, soccer, sandals, jewery, radios, cell phones, fax machines and go live in a cave with a club.

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    • starman70
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:29pm

      PLEEEEEZE, don’t give the Commie, *******, lefties any ideas. We all might be forced to live in the stone age yet work fulltime for the massa in Washington.

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      starman70  
    • adimeroll
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:02pm

      Your right. Dont blame the individual. Blame the inert object..Take the word responsibility out of the dictionary….Dictionary …sorry Im old………

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      adimeroll  
    • twistin
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:14pm

      …and breast implants, thank you.

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      twistin  
  • wordweaver
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:47am

    Wow! This data seems to show that there are more drunk driving fatalities in the major population centers of our nations. Never would have guessed there would be more deaths where there are more people. Another map showing the number of deaths due to cancer would probably look very similar.

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    wordweaver  
    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Yeah this is nothing but useless hype !

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      SocialistSlayer  
    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:50pm

      of course, look at it another way…this map is an EXACT layover of the voting map for BO. Let’s spin it that way instead of being intelligent enough to know that more people = more DD fatalities…it just makes me feel better

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      usedCZARsalesman  
  • Landon410
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:45am

    I know one thing, if we didn’t have alcohol all these people would still be alive…..

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:50am

      Or, CARS!!!

      Maybe if the CARS didn’t have ignitions, or gas pedals, or steering wheels???? Think of the safety!!!

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      kickagrandma  
    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:06pm

      Let’s ban cars ! People don’t kill, cars do ! Especially those High Capacity Gas tanks !

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      SocialistSlayer  
    • Female
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:12pm

      I disagree, plenty of people die in accidents where no alcohol is involved. Some places like mountainous areas, bad weather or densely populated ones just are more dangerous. Your statement doesn’t hold up, sorry.

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      Female  
  • nocommie
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:44am

    Hey, I know.Create a law against drunk driving.Wheres Fienstein?cant I get a dumb a$$ politician to run to the camera?

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    nocommie  
  • Dushman Kush
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:43am

    Sharia will solve this problem for all Americans, Muslim and infidel alike. Sharia can’t come to Amerika soon enough. So many problems to solve. Long Live the Muslim Brotherhood !!!

    Dushman Kush  
  • GoodCook
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:37am

    Simple solution ban cars.

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    GoodCook  
    • andrew36
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

      Why would you ban cars, ban alcohol. After all cars do actually serve a purpose and wthey would have a detrimental effect on society if not around, why alcohol has nothing but detrimental effects, I know it wont happen but banning alcohol makes a lot more sense then banning cars. Lock any driver that is drunk and involved in a fatality up for 20 years as well. Dont tell me that wouldnt make a large percentage of people think twice before driving drunk.

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      andrew36  
    • booger71
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:10pm

      andrew36
      ======
      I think we tried this before, and if memory serves, it did turn out pretty well for the Mafia and Rum Runners like Joe Kennedy.

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      booger71  
  • KickinBack
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:36am

    Party in the desert!

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    KickinBack  
  • HOOT_OWL
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:33am

    The worse case I ever heard of…

    When Mr. and Mrs. Commie got drunk and made baby Kenyan.

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    HOOT_OWL  
  • cowboy357
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:32am

    The Amish say “Don’t drink or drive”

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    cowboy357  
  • davethe10r
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:30am

    I’m guessing the rates have gone down considerably since 2009, when Ted Kennedy passed away…

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    davethe10r  
  • hi
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:27am

    I wonder what the map will look like after 10 years of traffic fatalities due to driving while under the influence of pot.

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    hi  
  • rockymtngal
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:27am

    Perhaps it’s time to put gruesome photos of those killed by drunk drivers on all lables of liquor.

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    rockymtngal  
    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:05pm

      Not a bad idea. And what about pictures of gunshot victims free with every gun sale? Start with the little boy in Newtown who lay in his casket with a cloth covering where his lower jaw used to be.

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      Lloyd Drako  
  • blaaaaackwoman
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:23am

    Probably the most obscene case of drunk driving I’ve read of is the billionaire John Goodman case. Search for it on the internet. Not too long ago the jerk was caught trying to short circuit the ankle bracelet that he wears while he is under house arrest in his billionaire home waiting for the appeals process. He’s the guy who is trying to adopt his girlfriend as his daughter so she can “inherit” his money so he doesn’t lose his money in the civil lawsuit due to him killing an innocent while drunk driving then running away from the accident.

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    blaaaaackwoman  
  • Lotus503
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:21am

    That does it! Ban cars!

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    Lotus503  
    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:34am

      Motor vehicles kill more people than guns in this country and need to be done away with.

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    • andrew36
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Yeah countrygirl then we can use our guns to travel from place to place.

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      andrew36  
  • lel2007
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:19am

    Huh. Looks like the problem is where the cities and population are, I’m shocked.

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  • AvengerK
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:16am

    Where are the calls from CNN’s ratings failure Pierre Morgan to ban liquor? Clearly American booze manufacturers are killing Americans in unprecedented (Obama’s favourite word next to “folks”) numbers.

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    AvengerK  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:23am

      @AVENGERK

      I am tracking: Notion and folks as Obamas favorite words. You may right about “unprecedented number”. And let’s not forget “the rich”, who he is truly envious of.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • Owt_Raged
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:26am

      I’m sorry, but people who drink and stay home don’t cause these fatalities! It’s those evil cars!!!! Ban all cars, especially the black ones that go faster than 70 mph and have fancy accessories!!!!!

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:34am

      I thought “um” next to “uh” were his favorite words?

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    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:46am

      @Cavallo

      Obama: “Um, ugh, the notion of folks being rich in unprecedented numbers, is something we can no longer accept. Um, ugh I don’t like it. Because, um, ugh I am unpresidentially jealous and envious”

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:56am

      I forgot about that..yes ban cars also. Pierre should mention that to the two people who still watch his variety show on CNN.
      And “uh” and “umm” are indeed two of Obama’s favourite words.

      Perhaps someone should introduce the word “ano” to Obama? It’s Japanese. In Japan it’s considered rude during polite conversation to use “uh” and “umm” to pause during a sentence or thought and certainly when Obama’s minus his teleprompter the “uh’ and “umms” are too numerous to count. Now if only we could do something about that annoying sibilance he has when he says his “esses”…they whistle like the sound of a tea kettle.

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    • andrew36
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:10pm

      owt rage I know your just been a smartarse but people who dont drive drunk arnt to blame neither. Cars do actually have beneficial effects on society, what beneficial effects does alcohol have on society.

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  • cessna152
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:16am

    Ban drinking and driving…oh wait, they did. I guess it’s time to stop selling alcohol and you need to register every bottle of wine and beer you buy. Oh wait, they did that too.
    Maybe we should simply bring back personal responsibility, morals and values into society? Nah, that might offend someone. oh well, then we’ll ban guns that will solve all problems…

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  • MissEllaneous
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:16am

    I would like to see this map compared to a map of gunshot fatalities.

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    MissEllaneous  
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