Alcohol and Road Accidents Involving Pedestrians as Unprotected Road Users

Injuries to pedestrians in road traffic accidents.

Although there have been many reports on injuries to occupants of cars in road traffic accidents, there have been few prospective studies of injuries to pedestrians in such accidents. For this reason a two year prospective study of pedestrians in road traffic accidents in the Oxford region was carried out. The incidence of death in pedestrians was significantly higher than in car occupants or m...

Alcohol and fatal road traffic accidents.

Cannabis, alcohol and fatal road accidents

INTRODUCTION This research aims to estimate the relative risks of responsibility for a fatal accident linked to driving under the influence of cannabis or alcohol, the prevalence of these influences among drivers and the corresponding attributable risk ratios. A secondary goal is to estimate the same items for three other groups of illicit drugs (amphetamines, cocaine and opiates), and to compa...

Drugs, alcohol and road accidents in Tasmania.

Drug analyses were performed on 200 blood samples that were taken for alcohol analysis from road users in Tasmania. Alcohol at a concentration of above 0.5 g was found in 75% of the samples, and other drugs were found in 17% of the samples. Cannabis was the most prevalent of these other drugs: it was detected in 6% of road users; benzodiazepine drugs were detected in 5% of road users; and barbi...

Relation of Alcohol to Road Accidents.

users. This conclusion was reached after close investigation of many reports on the effect of alcohol on actual driving performance and of the large amount of statistical evidence on the relation of alcohol to road accidents. However, despite the importance of this subject and the wide interest it has generated, we are aware of only one study, that of Cassie and Allan (1961), in which the blood...