CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY (2)-2009

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GRAI\TS MADE EASY - DUl Overtime SCHEDULE A GRANT No: ALl084 GRANT DESCRIPTION Page I PROBLEM STATEMENT: Usinf! local data (not OTS Rankinf!s or SWITRS) complete the table below. CoUision Tvne 2005 2006 2007 Collisions Victims Collisions Victims Collisions Victims Fatal 23 23 20 20 19 19 Iniurv 1521 2180 1391 1985 1301 1815 Fatal Iniurv Killed Iniured Fatal Iniurv Killed In i ured Fatal liiiurv- Killed Iniured Alcohol Involved 6 122 6 186 6 100 6 140 4 114 4 157 Hit & Run I 280 I 354 5 231 5 303 I 215 I 284 Nighttime 8 199 8 288 8 163 8 234 10 185 10 276 '2100-0259 hours) Please provide detailed answers to the following questions as part of the Problem Statement: 1. Describe the traffic safety problem(s) to be addressed, include: . What percent of your collisions involve drivers with a suspended or revoked license or drivers who have never been issued a license? . What percent of your total DUI arrests between October I, 2007, and September 30, 2008, were made as a result of a collision? Santa Ana boasts the youngest median ages for any city in the United States. Nearly half of our population is under the age of25, approximately 166,000. This demographic is statistically four times more likely to be involved in collisions. We will be required to maintain vigilant enforcement efforts to counter these trends. In the city of Santa Ana we responded to and prepared reports for 4,207 collisions during the specified time period. Of these reported collisions, 1626 were hit and run collisions. Because one or more parties left the scene there license status is unknown. We recorded a total of 1227 collisions where one or more of the parties were unlicensed either suspended or none issued. This represents 30% of our total reported collisions. Ifwe exclude hit & run traffic collisions where the license status is unknown from our total number of collisions, there is a 48% chance the driver is unlicensed. The Santa Ana Police Department arrested a total of 1180 DUI drivers during the specified period. We arrested 370 of these impaired drivers after they had become involved in a traffic collision. This represents 35% of all our DUI arrests. OTS-38b GME DUl Overtime (10/08)