A linkage study of Western Australian drink driving arrests and road crash records

Records of drivers in all reported road crashes occurring in Western Australia between 1987 and 1995 were linked with records of all drink driving arrests in the same period. About 7% of all drink driving arrests occurred because of a road crash. Differences were observed between these drink-driving...

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Published in:Accident analysis and prevention 2001-03, Vol.33 (2), p.211-220
Main Authors: Rosman, Diana L., Ferrante, Anna M., Marom, Yuval
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Traffic - mortality
Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Alcohol
Alcoholic Intoxication - epidemiology
Arrests
Australia, Western Australia
Crime - statistics & numerical data
Drink driving
driving ability
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Odds Ratio
Record linkage
Registries
Risk
Road crashes
Sex Distribution
traffic safety
Western Australia - epidemiology
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Summary:Records of drivers in all reported road crashes occurring in Western Australia between 1987 and 1995 were linked with records of all drink driving arrests in the same period. About 7% of all drink driving arrests occurred because of a road crash. Differences were observed between these drink-driving crashes and other types of road crashes. Drink driving crashes tended to be more severe than those not involving alcohol. Serious crashes (involving fatalities or hospitalisations) accounted for 20% of alcohol-related crashes, but only 6% of all crashes reported over the study period. From another perspective, crash-related drink-driving arrests were more likely than routine enforcement arrests to involve younger (18–35 years) and older (65 years and over) drink drivers. Routine enforcement arrests, on the other hand, were likely to involve a greater proportion of Aboriginal drivers.
ISSN:0001-4575
1879-2057
DOI:10.1016/S0001-4575(00)00034-8