Men in their 20s accounted for nearly a third of all Colorado DUI cases last year, report finds

Men in their 20s accounted for nearly a third of all DUI cases in Colorado in 2016, according to a first-of-its-kind comprehensive report on impaired driving in the state that also found most people charged with DUI are ultimately convicted.

Young men were the largest group of defendants in a state analysis of the 27,000-plus DUI court cases filed across the state in 2016, though the group only represents about 8 percent of the state’s total population. Men as a whole represented about three quarters of all cases of driving under the influence.

Analysts also found that more than a third of defendants had a previous DUI conviction.

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