CALIFORNIA, STATE OF, OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY - 2010

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GRANTS MADE EASY -DUI Overtime SCHEDULE A GRANT No: AL1084 GRANT DESCRIPTION PROBLEM STATEMENT: Usin local data not OTS Rankin s or SWITRS c Collision T e 2005 Collisions Victims Collisions Fatal ' 23 23 20 In u 1521 2 180 1391 Fatal In'ur Killed Inured Fatal In'u Alcohol Involved 6 122 6 186 6 100 Hit & Run 1 280 1 354 5 231 Nighttime 8 199 8 288 8 163 (2100-0259 hours) Page 1 ~m lete the table b elow. 2006 2007 Victims Collisions Victims 20 19 19 1985 1301 1815 Killed Inured Fatal In'ur Killed Inured 6 140 4 114 4 157 5 303 1 215 1 284 8 234 10 185 10 276 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 1, 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 of 25, 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. If we 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 DUI Overtime (10/08)