California Continues Significant Decrease in the Rate of Youth Under 21 Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities per 100,000 Population.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1998--For the second year in a row, California has experienced a reduction in the rate of youth under 21 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per 100,000 population, according to recently released national statistics as reported by The Century Council, a national anti-alcohol abuse organization. In 1997, the rate of alcohol-related traffic fatalities among youth under 21 in California was 2.22 per 100,000 population, down from 2.37 in 1996, a six percent decrease. The actual number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities among youth under 21 was 240 in 1996 and 228 in 1997. "California has made great strides in fighting alcohol-related driving deaths among our youth," said John C. Lawn John C. Lawn served as Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration between July 26, 1985 and March 23, 1990. On March 1 1985, Francis M. Mullen retired and John C. "Jack" Lawn, Deputy Administrator since 1982, became Acting Administrator. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The Century Council, which fights drunk driving and underage drinking problems and is funded by America's leading distillers. This decline between 1996 and 1997 is important, according to Lawn, because there was a slight national increase in the rate of youth alcohol-related driving deaths between 1995 and 1996. "We were concerned that the excellent progress over the past decade was being reversed, but the 1997 statistics from states such as California reassure us that we are continuing to reduce needless loss of life due to underage drinking and driving," he said, pointing out that California's long-term decline in the rate of alcohol-related traffic fatalities among youth under 21 per 100,000 population has been a dramatic 66 percent from 1987 to 1997, above the national rate reduction of 50 percent among this group. The Century Council bases its statistics on 1997 data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. (NHTSA NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (US government) ), including the Fatality Analysis Reporting System Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was created in the United States by NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) to provide an overall measure of highway safety, to help suggest solutions, and to help provide an objective basis to evaluate the effectiveness (FARS) and General Estimating System (GES GES GTN (Global Transportation Network) Exercise System GES General Estimates System (NHTSA) GES Ghana Education Service GES Government Economic Service (UK) ) databases, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census Noun 1. Bureau of the Census - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Census Bureau . The Century Council is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting alcohol abuse, focusing on drunk driving and illegal underage drinking. Founded in 1991, the Council has headquarters in Los Angeles and is funded by America's leading distillers. The Council's Website address is www.centurycouncil.org. |
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