The Correlation Between Drunk Driving And The Pandemic Traffic Fatality Spike

You want to know the weird thing about pandemic-era traffic? The highways were relatively unpopulated with more people staying at home and leaving the Ford or the Toyota in the driveway, but traffic fatalities actually went up. According to the NHTSA, we saw 36,096 fatalities in the US in 2019. In 2020, that number jumped to 38,824. And in 2021, that number was projected at 42,915.