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California DUI Fact Sheet: 1997 - 2007

CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007
CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007 PDF version
  Year
  1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
DUI Arrest Rate (per 100,000 licensed drivers) 933 908 896 847 803 783 809 792 786 849 863
Total DUI arrests Footnote 1A 191164 188327 188523 181336 176490 177056 183560 180957 180288 197248 203866
Felony DUI arrests Footnote 1A 5568 5330 5242 5476 5647 5859 5856 5646 5962 6191 6264
Misdemeanor DUI arrests Footnote 1A 185596 182997 183281 175860 170843 171197 177704 175311 174326 191057 197602
DUI convictions received to date (by year of arrest) Footnote 2A 142372 144081 149703 144342 140446 139814 144453 143188 140879 148066 153348
Percent convicted of DUI as of Sept. 2007 Footnote 2A 75% 77% 79% 80% 80% 79% 79% 79% 78% 75% 75%
Alcohol-involved reckless driving convictions Footnote 2A 16867 15945 15514 14465 15773 15694 15735 14801 14452 14517 15121
Percent convicted of alcohol reckless as of Sept. 2007 Footnote 2A 8.8% 8.5% 8.2% 8.0% 8.9% 8.9% 8.6% 8.2% 8.0% 7.4% 7.4%
Alcohol-involved fatalities Footnote 3A 1100 1072 1170 1233 1308 1416 1445 1462 1574 1597 1489
% of total fatalities 30.0 31.0 32.8 33.1 33.3 34.2 34.2 35.7 36.6 38.1 37.5
Alcohol-involved injuries Footnote 3A 31189 30985 29833 30971 31806 32013 31322 31538 30810 31099 30783
% of total injuries 10.9 10.7 10.3 10.2 10.4 10.4 10.2 10.4 10.5 11.2 11.5
Drug-involved fatalities Footnote 4A 253 266 290 428 509 639 784 799 880 859 749
% of total fatalities 6.9 7.7 8.2 11.5 13.0 15.6 18.6 19.5 20.4 20.5 18.9
Drug-involved injuries Footnote 4A 1682 1549 1774 1917 2106 2373 2580 2646 2722 2421 2464
% of total injuries 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9

1AThese totals do not include duplicate cases as originally reported in the Department of Justice, Criminal Justice Statistics Center, MACR data, and as of 2006 the counts for all the years reflect this change.

2AThese data represent a DMV master file count of the number of DUI abstracts (data received from the courts), by year of violation, minus duplicates. Each year, the DUI conviction totals are updated to include the amended and new abstracts for current and previous years. These additions are also reflected in changes for the percent convicted. These totals do not include conviction abstracts not yet received. Thus, for the most recent years, these figures will underestimate the final conviction totals.

3AThese figures include overlap with drugs. That is, drugs are also involved in some of these cases.

4AThese figures include overlap with alcohol. That is, alcohol is also involved in some of these cases.

Beginning with the 2007 report, reporting of drug-involved fatalities is included

CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007 (continued)
  Year
  1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
TOTAL MANDATORY SUSPENSION/ REVOCATION (S/R) ACTIONS 205462
Footnote 1B
238612
Footnote 1B
236141 240597 231217 236603 241242 239580 247568 339796
Footnote 3B
362859
PRECONVICTION
Admin Per Se (APS) Actions 169511 175365 179332 172606 164840 165505 171470 171828 168569 185481 192213
.01 Zero tolerance suspensions 11517 15640 17775 18185 18549 19129 19949 19967 19374 22044 22112
.08 First-offender suspensions 114247 116827 119621 114997 109695 109888 114975 116022 107466 118468 123594
.08 Repeat-offender suspensions 39636 39024 38487 36147 33517 33580 33413 32903 38097 41420 42979
.08 Repeat-offender revocations 4111 3874 3449 3277 3079 2908 3133 2936 3632 3549 3528
Commercial driver actions 4496 4609 4471 4139 4013 3936 3853 3801 3525 2974 2903
Chemical test refusal actions 10110 9935 9435 9433 8841 8772 9399 9353 9599 9315 9581
.01 Test refusal suspensions 134 229 268 270 280 290 341 326 364 419 426
.08 Test refusal suspensions 5865 5832 5718 5886 5482 5547 5925 6091 5603 5347 5627
.08 Test refusal revocations 4111 3874 3449 3277 3079 2908 3133 2936 3632 3549 3528
POSTCONVICTIONFootnote 2B
Juvenile DUI suspensions 769
Footnote 1B
1026
Footnote 1B
918 741 714 896 794 838 737 941 1061
First-offender suspensions 4847
Footnote 1B
9588
Footnote 1B
15072 29924 31097 32716 32521 31012 39078 110525
Footnote 3B
124436
Misdemeanor 3834
Footnote 1B
7497
Footnote 1B
13401 28118 29188 30563 30298 28799 36808 108227
Footnote 3B
122102
Felony 1013
Footnote 1B
2091
Footnote 1B
1671 1806 1909 2153 2223 2213 2270 2298 2334
Second-offender S/R actions 22945
Footnote 1B
40238
Footnote 1B
31940 29097 26911 29345 28737 28400 30294 32680 34296
Misdemeanor 22532
Footnote 1B
39065
Footnote 1B
31455 28571 26334 28748 28160 27847 29699 32046 33649
Felony 413
Footnote 1B
633
Footnote 1B
485 526 577 597 577 553 595 634 647
Third-offender revocations 5569
Footnote 1B
9397
Footnote 1B
6573 6163 5727 6171 5953 5581 6720 7649 8063
Misdemeanor 5471
Footnote 1B
9167
Footnote 1B
6452 6015 5585 5996 5758 5429 6537 7424 7830
Felony 98
Footnote 1B
230
Footnote 1B
121 148 142 175 195 152 183 225 233
Fourth-offender revocations 1821
Footnote 1B
2998
Footnote 1B
2306 2066 1928 1970 1767 1921 2170 2520 2790
TOTAL POSTCONVICTION S/R ACTIONS 35951
Footnote 1B
63247
Footnote 1B
56809 67991 66377 71098 69772 67752 78999
Footnote 3B
154315
Footnote 3B
170646

1BThe 1997/1998 counts reflect backlogged actions from 1997 that were processed in 1998.

2BThese totals include suspension actions that are associated with lack of compliance with statutory requirements, and include workload counts.

3BThis count has increased as a result of the law change, effective 09/20/2005, which assigned to DMV the sole responsibility for imposing license actions for all DUI and removed this responsibility from the courts.

rRevised from prior reports.

 

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