The 75 U.S. cities with the highest rates of fatalities caused by drunk driving.
This region has like 3 cars per household, and next to 0 public transportation. We drive (apparently drunk) everywhere. Get me out 😭
I feel like we need to call Temecula the IE just to keep that uppity oc/sd attitude in check
Temecula absolutely is IE, despite the fact that they painfully want to be part of San Diego. Just like Redlands really wants to be part of the OC.
You're petty, but you're right.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Wanna be Klantington Beach
It’s the OC of the IE. Fairly common term.
It’s got all the defining characteristics of the IE
Temecula is in Riverside county. It's definitely IE, isn't it?
I know i was surprised to see Corona, Temecula, and Ontario on there at all. Not as surprised to see San Bernardino on there though lol. But 5 in the top 25? I didn't expect that
Temecula is packed with wineries! Just go on a Saturday or Sunday and you will witness first hand the dumb idiots driving wine drunk 🥴
Came here to say this. Temecula police wait to get the wine tasters just inside city limits at Butterfield & Rancho California intersection.
Yep, tourists. I was surprised, no Vegas. Look at the cities with highest populations. Surprised? Uh, no.
I run sound for local bands around temecula and I can't tell you how many people I've seen drive off drunk from the wineries and old Town. Had someone hit the band trailer and my truck one night. All of temecula turns into a shithole around 7pm with all the idiots on the roads.
Yet no Napa or Sonoma on the list.
Perhaps Napa or Sonoma have better public transportation for wine tours compared to Temecula. though I've heard that the cops usually nail ppl with DUIs as they are leaving Napa so maybe the arrests are made outside city limits.
Napa and Sonoma have near zero public transportation. They're just better at driving shit faced. You get lots of experience when you start your day with a Mimosa or a Chardonnay in the Stanley Quencher
Wine tour busses, napa wine train, napa wine trolley. All are very common ways to tour wineries and reduce the number of impared drivers within city limits. Downtown napa is also a very walkable town. I wasn't talking about city busses.
As a resident of Sonoma county, I can assure you we do not have great public transportation. You are lucky to get an Uber/lyft after 9 pm some weekend nights.
Also, the list is only showing the 300 largest cities in the US so Sonoma, Napa and other smaller cities won’t be on here.
Idk how many IE folk are visiting napa or sonoma lol but temecula gets alot of riff raff from Riverside, Hemet, Oc and even LA folks come out this way for some weekend drinking. I think people forgot that wine gets you a different kind of drunk. It sneaks up on you !
Yeah different demo visiting Sonoma and Napa. Not quite as much riff raff, but I was half expecting to see it on here.
It makes sense considering the suburban sprawl and how all the cities kind of blend together and our lack of public transportation. And people out here tend to drink as a pastime/hobby every weekend. It was still surprising to me though. Something has to change
They don't call it Rivercide for nothing.
Nobody probably calls it that. Only me probably.
I'll see myself out.
Bye 👋🏽 ✌🏽
Live in the IE.
Culturally, drinking and driving is tolerated here, as is being an alcohol. It’s gross.
And 5 out of the top 5 in CA. 6 if you count Temecula.
I would drink heavily too if I lived in the inland empire.
Because cities here are tiny
Part of the issue is the dependency on vehicles in California. Especially the IE. You can’t really go out to bars and walk home here.
Irresponsible people will still choose to drive home after a long night of drinking.
The culture of IE cities is also incredibly anti-bar as well. Most of the cities here consider themselves "Bedroom communities" still. You live here, and you go elsewhere to do stuff. The bars are either run down bars that got their license 50 years ago, or shit like Applebee's. We don't really have neighborhood bars in most places, you need to get in your car and drive 20+ minutes to get to somewhere to drink. And because there isn't a culture of having a local bar where you can have 1-2 drinks regularly, people just save up all their drinking and when they go out they decide to make the best of it and GO BIG. This means more people starting shit at bars, more drunk drivers and more bad behavior.
Moved to the IE from Michigan and was shocked that neighborhood bars and delis basically aren’t a thing.
There’s certain iconic bars that people still go to that their parents went to when many people moved here/retired after WWII but none are walking distance. Most are about 2-3 miles from my home which does requires driving but I have walked that distance as well.
Any good recommendations? I would love a friendly neighborhood bar to check out one of these days.
Never understood the logic of bedroom communities. Wouldn’t you want some cool shit near where you live?
yall too good to drink 2$ Bahama mamas at Applebee's, hit on the hostess (who is goth), and get tased by police in the parking lot?
Goth chicks are still a thing?
This is true in the majority of the US save for major cities. But that doesn't prevent people from making responsible choices like taking an Uber or designating a DD. What is stark is how many IE cities make the list compared to the rest of socal or even California. If there was a lack of ride share services it would make more sense but it's not the case.
Interesting. So this is a kind of phantom border map of where public transit is less available?
Texas too.
I’m surprised to see Corona so high with not many places to drink around here outside of restaurants. I wonder if it’s more due to the 91/71/15 and people driving back from places having accidents.
It is the 91/71/15 for sure. Especially at night when idiots speed on all three.
I’m sure it has to do with the 91. It’s a dangerous freeway with a lot of traffic.
There’s the depot, Michelle’s bar, Chuck wagon, shamrocks, rockefellas, sportys, happy hours saloon. Just to name a few. A lot of bars actually and most of them do not cut people off/ over serve alcohol from what I’ve seen. Oh and don’t forget all the bars in Norco.
Definitely due to the 91/71/15. When I went to my DUI classes a lot of the ppl there were from OC, LA, or SB driving through.
That’s probably why people go out to drink far and then they are in a rush/tired to get home
Damn socal! It really do be like that out here though....💀
The entirety of California drives fuckin crazy.
Ever been to Florida?
Thankfully I have not /s
IE isn’t so cal, no matter how much you guys want it to be.
Where the fuck do you think it is??
where the fuck is it then? I guess ive been driving by nothing? The whole concept of north and south is wrong and you're right. Gotcha
I can't imagine how difficult it must be to be this geographically challenged.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Your language shows me that you are not native to here, so your argument is moot.
Ok, no need to get upset and drunkenly hit me with your car guys.
3507 Vancouver looks like a dump to me aswell 🤣
Despite how small Victorville is. Doesn’t seem to amaze me
Wut?? Victorville is huge! It’s among the 50 biggest cities by land area in California.
Referring to population
Midland-Odessa is a single metro area and shows up at the top. Granted, it IS an armpit.
I grew up there, lived all around LA for 20 years. Odessa Midland is the single most terrifying place to drive. I am always fearful for my life when visiting.
IE lifted truck brotards have absolutely nothing on Odessa-Midland straight up mad max roughnecks with no local family or social network in place and nothing to spend their paychecks on except their truck(s) and their alcohol. Dead flat, straight everything means the hammer is down all the damn time. At night the setting even looks appropriately post-apocalyptic with all the wild flare-off torches burning in the distance, some right near the roads so close you feel the heat off of them.
Only place in the country I felt, as a one time "car enthusiast" dumbass with way more horsepower than sense, like I was the sanest, safest driver on the road.
Corona being on this list is pretty apt.
Much of this is just places that have a lot of traffic passing through them.
Addition, big cities in the Northeast and even Midwest or places where people don't drive as much. Nobody living in Chicago is taking their cars to a bar.
Way to go IE! Smh
Curious to see the demographic data on all this. You read and see how Gen Z are doing less of what Millennials did (drinking, partying, sex, drugs, driving, etc).
Perhaps over time, the numbers will drop across the board…
If the only way to get around is by car, then this is a logical consequence.
You'd be surprised that here in New Orleans, alcohol is sold 24hrs and an open bottle city. We have drive thru Daiquiri shops, yet you hardly hear of any DUIs. If one is issued, it's normally for a tourist. The police would rather take you home or follow you to your destination before writing a ticket....being the murder capital, traffic tickets are beneath them😁
You don’t have to travel far to go for a drink… here in corona you either drive 20 mins to Orange County or 20 mins to downtown riverside or Rancho Cucamonga or Temecula
Totally believe it. Live in Corona and have been rear ended at stop signs twice in the past year. One guy was noticably drunk, he also had inactive insurance. Cops did not even show up to take a report.
I'd love to see an overlay with hours driven per capita
Not 1 WI city is surprising...
Population just doesnt compare. Or they’re better drunk drivers. Milwaukee guy living in Corona :)
I think you're right, "300 largest cities" per 100k ppl
What the fuck y’all doing in Corona?
Just passing through like everbody
I mean so many of the IE ones are easy to explain. They’re a billion breweries and wineries, and no public transit. They refuse to build upward and increase housing density out there, so the spread continues, and then no one wants to Uber because it’s way too far.
Dang we got a problem
Very interesting data. It’s honestly a little shocking.
There are drunk drivers all across the globe but their streets are designed where if you’re drunk in the city you’ll crash before you can get enough speed to kill someone IE roads are the widest roads I’ve ever seen even in residential areas, it would be more cost effective to invest in safer streets than increasing police budget
They way the IE is built, you have to drive out of your neighborhood to get to a business, absolutely nothing is walkable over there.
Woohoo IE represent!
What about #74? 🤔
There are two cities tied at 73.
send this to your council member
“We will increase the police budget by 5 million that is all folks”
Yay! Moron Valley is number 28 on the list. Of course looking at the Moron Valley's FB pages, the number of anti-checkpoints posters are greater than the pro's.
Edit: oops, 28 is listed twice.
Yea Tucson! Never seen someone pulled over. No surprise people drive drunk
Wide flat straight lanes all over IE.
Thanks especially for the CA city listings; lotta wineries in and around a few. Could there be a connection?
Buzzed driving is still drunk driving ! 🗣️🗣️
Nationwide. This has nothing to do with where the highest rates take place.
We really do be living in Car Hell :(
5 of them are right by me oof
I thought Wisconsin would be at the top of the list but apparently when drunks hit drunks they just bounce off.
Just scanning down the list of Californian cities... yep, seems about right. LOL
Midland beats Odessa again….
Wow CA and TX are competing hard
the data is skewed, for one a lot of people traverse through the IE from the OC, LA, HD, LD, Nevada, Arizona, up north, down south, not mention those that live within the IE etc etc trying to get to different places and a lot of times speeding/turning up in their cars, in addition to that California has more population than several states combined. when you look at it from that point of view im not really surprised to see so many IE cities on this list. if yall notice you will see that the cities shown here are those that are within major freeway interjunctions therefore a hot spot for anybody coming through the area. now, if it said Chino, Upland, Rialto etc etc more cities that are in the cut, that would tell a different story. go ahead and talk down on us, just shows most people look at things at face value. we all have the ability to access different parts of our brain tho, it’s the reason CEOs make so much money.
Damn how we still alive
San Bernardino and them raves contributes a lot I bet
Lmao all or almost all red cities. MUST be a coincidence...
Meh, pretty much the part of the county where people are in their cars the most. Makes sense.
Why is that meh? That is a problem
Sample size.
It would be more interesting to see the age/ demographics of these accidents to get a better idea of the issue vs. people from the IE can't drive.
I have to think that the numbers per capita would be incredibly different when you think of the size of San Bernardino compared to some county in Montana
Texas, California, Texas, California, Texas…
That moment when your small town city is famous for all the wrong reasons (Corona, CA)
Corona, CA at 4, well not surprised when you literally share the name of a beer.
They forgot to put a pub on the corner when they built all these suburbs.
BS Las Vegas is not there
Vegas has free transit on the strip and the busses run every 30 minutes most routes. Many locals take the busses, and visitors take the trams back to their rooms
I live in vegas and trust me, we have a lot of fatal car accidents caused by drunk drivers
Oh I know. But it's lower because the city has great transit. Idiots will always drink and drive.
Agree. Selfish people are everywhere
They are also looking at fatalities, not just drunk driving. It looks like the top places are where there are lots of highways and are less dense which means you are likely going faster when you get in a wreck. It doesn’t really mean there are more drunk people driving. This is where Epi gets complicated.
6 of the first 21 are in Texas, including #1 -- more than any other state. Not surprising, as Texas's DWI enforcement is extremely lax.
Corona is the crossroads of the IE. Way more people driving through 91/15 than just the residents. Pure numbers game. Cute theories about the reasons Coronans drink and drive, though. Literally zero nightlife in this town.
Cali are YOU good?
Wtf...
Well, they are caught more in the IE. You think drunkards enjoy driving impaired? NO, they do it out of necessity. They cant afford 120 dollars to be driven to far drinking bars. So thats why you see it more here. Facts.
Then they can't afford to be drinking.
Interesting, the two extreme regions of each political party...
What’s crazy is what’s not on this list: Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, La Crosse, Superior, Kenosha, Appleton, nor any other Wisconsin city despite being in the drunkest state. 🤯🔫
Corona makes sense, aint not bar scene, people gotta drive.
Fuck yea San Berdo!!!! We made it!
Modesto Ca is always on the “worst in America” list.
Shout out to my town of Ventura at 25 🤣🤣🤣
Damn. I didn’t even read who was the OP and just read through and like every other one is IE lol. Fuck them people love to drink and drive
I’m from Rancho
Not OP, just reposted
Was just talking about the r/inlandempire
Another thing Texas excels at.
Hey - a list of cities where bad things happen a lot & St. Louis didn’t make it. Yay!
Someone compare this to “gun violence”.
Being a Californian I found all the Ca cities listed. They are almost all ghetto af.
I'm surprised Vegas isn't high on the list. I've lived there for years and amount of accidents is a world wonder. My partner worked in insurance over there before we left and she'd always tell me how many accidents and shitty drivers there were because of booze. I'd say this isn't telling the truth 100%
So many are Texas.
Get your shit together
So anywhere with a high Mexican population. I got Mexican homies growing up who drink coronas and drive for fun…..
Inland Empire, we gotta talk
Wow Texas and California are trash
If only the promise of self driving cars would hurry up.
A lot of Riverside County (CA) and Inland Empire (both east of Los Angeles) on that list…
How is Wisconsin not on here anywhere?
5 of top 20 are in TX with high fatality rates. Could it be the big trucks?
San Bernardino leading the country in a bad way as usual
Makes since why I drink n drive
You're such an inspiration.
Thanks! I'm working thru it
SoCal killin it. Literally. I’m surrounded by idiots out here. Help!
Not suprised at all. There's nothing in the inland empire besides warehouses. And when people are bored or idle, they take to the bottle or other means.
We gotta win at something
We gotta win at something
Doesnt surprise me at all about the list, Cops around here do not enforce any sort of law anymore. Slowly becoming more and more like Seattle here every day.
Californians stay drunk! Makes me wonder if it’s too much partying or people unhappy with where they live!
Generally shocked my city of Las Vegas is not here
Wow…5 of the top 25 are inland empire cities. (6 if you want to count Temecula) that’s just insane