This study deals with the accident severity of drunken drivers. The purpose of this study is to comparatively analyze the accident factors between urban and rural area using the ordered logit model. In pursuing the above, this study gives particular attentions to analyzing the difference between urban and rural areas. The main results are as follows. First, such the accident factors as gender, age, accident type, season and weather are evaluated to affect to the accident severity. In the case of elderly man driver, single accident, night time and spring, the accident severity is analyzed to be higher. Second, the differences between rural and urban areas in the accident severity are compared using the marginal effect. In sum, rural drunken accidents with higher speed and less volume are evaluated to be more severe than urban drunken accidents. This study might be expected to give some implications to traffic safety policy-making to reduce and prevent the traffic accidents.