Female DUI Arrests Rise 30 Percent in Decade

Men are still more likely to drive drunk than women, but a disturbing new report finds that 28.8 percent more women were arrested for driving under the influence in 2007 than a decade earlier, CNN reported Aug. 18.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he was “certainly surprised” by the findings, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) President Laura Dean-Moody said that “women are unfortunately picking up some of the same terrible, reckless behaviors that men have exhibited.”

Drunk-driving arrests of men declined 7.5 percent even as such offenses among women increased, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The agency said that about 2,000 fatalities annually occur in incidents involved impaired female drivers.