San Diego Car Accidents Increasingly Caused by Female Drunk Drivers
Data collected since 1998 shows that San Diego car accidents have been increasingly caused by young, female drunk drivers according to this news story.
The study, performed by Steven Bloch of the Automobile Club of Southern California, was started following the insane drunk driving incidents involving television celebrities Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie. These incidents made Block wonder if they reflected a larger problems facing communities like San Diego.
What Block found was that, in San Diego, young female drunk drivers between the ages of 21 and 24 saw the largest increase in fatal car crashes. In 1998, there were 49 fatal car crashes. By 2007, there were 110 fatal car crashes.
For example, in a 2007 North San Diego County car accident, a young Palm Springs womand named Deanna Fridley was charged with DUI and driving under the influence of methamphetamine in a head-on car accident that killed two couples from Escondido and Vista. She is presently awaiting trial on four counts of murder related to the car crash.
Bloch does point out that the majority of drunk driving related crashes still involve males. Males are still twice as likely to be involved in fatal drunk driver car crashes. However, the percentage of male drunk drivers involved in fatal car crashes has fallen while the percentage of female drunk drivers involved in fatal car accidents has risen dramatically.
If you or a loved one has been killed or injured because of a San Diego drunk driver car crash, contact the experienced San Diego car accident lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at 619-233-5020, or contact them online here.
