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How many people died from drunk driving in 2016?

I’m doing a research project about drunk driving fatalities in the last 10 years. How many people in 2016 died from drunk driving?

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Mary Cahill · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
The statistics for drunk driving-related fatalities are never easy to look at. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that 10,996 people died in drunk driving
accidents
in 2016.
National data regarding annual alcohol-related road deaths have seesawed between the low and high end of 10,000 lives in recent years. According to the NHTSA, someone in the United States is killed in a drunk-driving accident every 52 minutes.
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