About the Indicator:

These estimates provided by the National Safety Council do not attempt to include "comprehensive costs” but just direct costs of traffic crashes, deaths and injuries due to medical expense, property damage and lost productivity.

Other procedures that attempt to include comprehensive costs (e.g. those used by US Dept of Transportation) result in total cost estimates about 3 times greater than those calculated here.

Data Source: Impaired Driving Facts

Description: Impaired Driving Facts provides statistics focused on incidences and consequences of impaired driving in Minnesota.

Sponsored by: Office of Traffic Safety, MN Department of Public Safety

Geographic Level: State, County

Aggregated data at the state and county level do not reveal disparities that may exist within a given geographic area.

Frequency: Data collected and reported annually

Characteristics: Impaired Driving Facts provides detailed information about impaired driving incidents/arrests, crashes, injuries and fatalities. Alcohol-related injuries are less well documented than fatalities. Property damage only crashes are least likely to be reported to law enforcement officials. Costs are associated with the county in which the crash occurred.