Table 21: Motorists involved in injury road collisions, breath tested and breath test results, by time of day

Years: 2014-18 and 2019-23 averages, 2019 to 2023

Drink Drive

	Year	Time of day								Total
	Year	00.00 to 02.59	03.00 to 05.59	06.00 to 08.59	09.00 to 11.59	12.00 to 14.59	15.00 to 17.59	18.00 to 20.59	21.00 to 23.59	Total
(a) Numbers
Motorists involved	2014-18 average	348	196	1,598	1,930	2,616	3,505	1,958	812	12,962
	2019	274	133	1,157	1,389	2,011	2,616	1,379	620	9,579
	2020	131	117	614	829	1,376	1,633	930	426	6,056
	2021	149	90	598	950	1,365	1,796	964	416	6,328
	2022	190	88	732	1,053	1,380	1,859	994	440	6,736
	2023	190	84	744	1,094	1,430	1,806	1,054	483	6,885
	2019 to 2023 average	187	102	769	1,063	1,512	1,942	1,064	477	7,117
Breath tests requested	2014-18 average	213	115	908	1,088	1,452	1,907	1,122	481	7,286
	2019	160	77	617	713	1,039	1,341	694	300	4,941
	2020	79	63	320	412	713	817	506	243	3,153
	2021	73	44	316	509	662	887	480	213	3,184
	2022	108	43	423	618	754	1,026	583	257	3,812
	2023	111	52	440	672	820	1,014	585	292	3,986
	2019 to 2023 average	106	56	423	585	798	1,017	570	261	3,815
Positive/refused	2014-18 average	45	24	15	12	14	29	34	41	214
	2013	53	27	17	11	16	20	34	34	212
	2014	55	33	16	11	14	27	26	41	223
	2015	61	19	18	15	10	25	34	44	226
	2016	53	25	19	11	19	40	45	39	251
	2017	29	20	13	10	9	27	36	47	191
	2018	28	22	11	11	18	26	28	33	177
	2019	39	15	14	7	13	22	29	29	168
	2020	20	8	9	6	10	24	25	31	133
	2021	17	8	16	6	11	18	15	21	112
	2022	31	7	9	9	16	22	27	27	148
	2023	26	7	9	18	19	24	37	25	165
	2019 to 2023 average	27	9	11	9	14	22	27	27	145
(b) Percentages
Breath test requested as % involved	2014-18 average	61.2	58.4	56.8	56.4	55.5	54.4	57.3	59.3	56.2
	2019	58.4	57.9	53.3	51.3	51.7	51.3	50.3	48.4	51.6
	2020	60.3	53.8	52.1	49.7	51.8	50.0	54.4	57.0	52.1
	2021	49.0	48.9	52.8	53.6	48.5	49.4	49.8	51.2	50.3
	2022	56.8	48.9	57.8	58.7	54.6	55.2	58.7	58.4	56.6
	2023	58.4	61.9	59.1	61.4	57.3	56.1	55.5	60.5	57.9
	2019 to 2023 average	56.9	54.5	55.0	55.0	52.7	52.4	53.5	54.7	53.6
Positive/refused as % involved	2014-18 average	13.0	12.1	1.0	0.6	0.5	0.8	1.7	5.0	1.6
	2019	14.2	11.3	1.2	0.5	0.6	0.8	2.1	4.7	1.8
	2020	15.3	6.8	1.5	0.7	0.7	1.5	2.7	7.3	2.2
	2021	11.4	8.9	2.7	0.6	0.8	1.0	1.6	5.0	1.8
	2022	16.3	8.0	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.2	2.7	6.1	2.2
	2023	13.7	8.3	1.2	1.6	1.3	1.3	3.5	5.2	2.4
	2019 to 2023 average	14.2	8.8	1.5	0.9	0.9	1.1	2.5	5.6	2.0
Positive/refused as % breath test requested	2014-18 average	21.2	20.8	1.7	1.1	1.0	1.5	3.0	8.5	2.9
	2019	24.4	19.5	2.3	1.0	1.3	1.6	4.2	9.7	3.4
	2020	25.3	12.7	2.8	1.5	1.4	2.9	4.9	12.8	4.2
	2021	23.3	18.2	5.1	1.2	1.7	2.0	3.1	9.9	3.5
	2022	28.7	16.3	2.1	1.5	2.1	2.1	4.6	10.5	3.9
	2023	23.4	13.5	2.0	2.7	2.3	2.4	6.3	8.6	4.1
	2019 to 2023 average	25.0	16.1	2.7	1.6	1.7	2.2	4.7	10.2	3.8

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