Alberta Stats - Alberta Summit On Justice

Figure 14
Adult Impaired Driving Cases, Selected Jurisdictions, 1995-96*

* Includes provincial court data for Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. These data represent about 80% of national coverage.
Source: Adult Criminal Court Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada.
For more information, see Juristat (catalogue no. 85-002) Vol. 17 no. 6, "Adult Criminal Court Statistics, 1995-96".

Impaired driving cases were the single largest category of offence heard in provincial court. This offence, as a percentage of total Criminal Code cases heard in provincial court, ranges from a low of 11% in N.W.T. to a high of 34% in P.E.I.

Impaired driving cases make up a significant part of total provincial caseload. The overall conviction rates for impaired driving cases are significantly higher than for other Criminal Code offence cases (e.g. 79% for impaired driving cases versus 52% for violent cases and 65% for property cases).

Of all the impaired driving cases heard in provincial court in Alberta in 1995 96, nearly three quarters resulted in a conviction, slightly below the national conviction rate of 79%.