Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Annual Rate of Recalcitrant Drink Drivers Caught in the Past Five Years

Question:

Mr Melvin Yong Yik Chye: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs (a) over the past five years, what is the annual rate of recalcitrant drink drivers caught for drink driving; and (b) how many of such incidents have resulted in (i) fatal accidents (ii) injuries and (iii) damage to property.

Answer:

Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law:

1. The annual rate of repeat drink drivers is calculated by taking, in each year, the number of repeat drink drivers caught, divided by the total number of drink drivers caught. The annual rate was 22% in 2018; 24% in 2019; 20% in 2020; 21% in 2021; and 24% in 2022.

2. In the last five years, three repeat drink drivers were involved in fatal accidents, and 139 were involved in injury-causing accidents. We do not track the number of drink-driving accidents that result in damage to property.