title: [Alcohol and automobile driving in the former East German area].
abstract: On the basis of traffic-characteristics the specially traffic- and crash-development in the formerly GDR is compared with West-Germany. The importance of alcohol, only this drug was attainable, in the development of the consumption, as a problem of health care and social insurance and as reason of working- and traffic-crashes is explained. Special points of the traffic-license law, of the drivers-fitness-control and the matter of taking action against alcohol in road-traffic and the responsibility in penal law, all that need some changes in order law arrangements and a special kind of cooperation in the traffic-security-task in all German countries.
authors.affiliation: Bisher medizinischer Dienst des Verkehrswesens, DDR, Berlin.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Plöntzke
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005859:Germany, East / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence