Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Numbers of Drivers Aged 21 Years and Below Caught for Drink Driving or Involved in Traffic Accidents in the Past Three Years

Question:

Mr Dennis Tan Lip Fong: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs in the past three years (a) what is the number of incidence of drivers aged 21 years and below who are (i) caught for drink driving and (ii) involved in traffic accidents as a proportion of the population of drivers aged 21 and below; and (b) how do these figures compare with the wider population of all drivers.

Answer:

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

1. The data is as follows:

Table 1: Proportion of drivers aged 21 and below caught for drink-driving and involved in traffic accidents

2. Over the past three years, drivers aged 21 years and below constituted 1.35% of all drivers who were caught for drink-driving and 4% of all drivers who were involved in traffic accidents.