Drugs in road traffic accident drivers with low blood alcohol concentrations
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Police requested 30,839 analyses from cases in which driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol and/or drugs was suspected in 1991. After exclusion of other than motor car accidents, non-drivers, cases with no blood sample as well as cases where drinking was claimed to have taken place after driving 21,723 cases were left. Eighteen per cent (3,910) of these drivers had been involved in a traffic accident, and 247 (6.3 %) had a BAC less than 0.50 per mille at the time of the accident. The drugs were analysed in 206 of these cases (83.4 %).
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