Survey of impaired drivers, fatally injured or surviving, who caused fatal highway accidents in Alberta in 1970-72.
In 1970-72, 456 (53.4%) of 854 drivers responsible for a motor vehicle accident in which either they or other persons were killed had been drinking beforehand. Of surviving culpable drivers tested for blood alcohol concentration 81.7% were found to be legally impaired; however, only 24.8% of these drivers were tested. Because surviving culpable drivers pose a possible future hazard to highway safety it is important that data on this group be collected and analysed.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000416:Alberta; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000097:blood; D001334:Automobile Driving; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology
D000431:Ethanol