Smashed and crashed
In 2018, nearly 1 in 5 fatal collisions in Los Angeles County were alcohol-related. The good news is the number of alcohol-related collisions has gone down for three years. The map below shows where most alcohol-related collisions occurred, using the Transportation Injury Mapping System developed by UC Berkeley.
The Transportation Injury Mapping System has been developed over the past five-plus years by SafeTREC to provide quick, easy and free access to California crash data, the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, that has been geo-coded by SafeTREC to make it easy to map out crashes.
The first map shows cities by number for 2018.
Here’s where the more than 4,000 alcohol-related collisions occurred in 2018.
The heat map shows green as lowest, yellow as middle and red as the most.
By the numbers
Number of alcohol-related collisions in Los Angeles County in 2018.
There were 4,923 collisions involving alcohol in Los Angeles County. On average, that’s about 13.5 per day.
Fatal collisions: 127
Injury collisions (severe): 565
Injury collisions (other visible): 1,998
Injury collisions (complaint of pain): 2,233
There were 7,220 victims in the period.
Killed: 144
Suspected serious injury: 690
Suspected minor injury: 2,481
Possible injury: 3,905
Alcohol-related collisions by time and day, 2018
Sources: UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research & Education Center, California Office of Traffic Safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration