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The report analyzed data from Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland. Data were collected from state and local police departments, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and state offices on highway safety and motor vehicles.
Among its findings, the report showed an 11-percent increase in fatalities and an 8-percent increase in crashes from 2000 to 2001. There were 4,497 crashes attributable to alcohol or other drugs in the region last year, compared to 4,152 the year before. Associated with those incidents were 106 fatalities last year and 95 fatalities in 2000.
In the Virginia jurisdictions, there was a 7-percent decrease in the overall number of traffic fatalities (from 126 in 2000 to 117 last year), but the number of alcoholand drug-related traffic fatalities remained the same (46 each year). Prince William County and the City of Alexandria had the biggest increases.
Further, the report states that since 1996, Virginia has had the highest rates of drug- and alcohol-related crashes of the three regions included in the report. Of all traffic fatalities, 19.4 percent were drug and alcohol related in D.C., 24.6 percent in Maryland, and 39.3 percent in Virginia.
The bright spot in the WRAP report is that the region’s rate of drunk driving fatalities remains well below
97.2%