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According to data released by the Transportation Department, the number of women arrested for drunken driving has risen nearly 30 percent from 1997 to 2007. The reason for the increase is unclear.
The announcement comes as the federal government and states announce the start of the annual Labor Day weekend crackdown aimed at snagging intoxicated drivers across the country. In Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. this effort will be known as Checkpoint Strikeforce and will involve sobriety checkpoints in various locations from August 21 to Labor Day.
In Virginia last year 354 people were killed in alcohol related crashes, about a 6 percent decrease from 2007. Another 7,000 were injured in drunken driving accidents last year. The average BAC of drivers arrested for DUI in Virginia last year was 0.14.
Despite the government’s focus on the rise in the number of female drunken drivers, intoxicated male drivers still dominate the statistics. Data recently released by Virginia for 2008 shows that 80 percent of individuals convicted of a DUI were male.
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