Post treatment driving records of injured impaired drivers

Lillis, Robert P.; Good, Robert; States, John D.

Affiliations

¹University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.

Abstract

Analyses of post-treatment records of impaired drivers injured in crashes revealed nearly 30% were convicted of alcohol related offenses within five years following discharge from the hospital. There was no difference in conviction survival rates between drivers convicted as a result of their crash and drivers who escaped conviction. The posttreatment conviction rate for injured impaired drivers was nearly 10 times the rate of conviction for the general driving population. Further analyses of driving records of impaired injured drivers revealed that a significant proportion of the injured drivers demonstrated indicators of problem drinking, e.g. prior DWI convictions, BAL>.20.

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1998	Soderstrom CA, Dischinger PC, Ho SM, Kerns TJ, Flint RD, Ballesteros MF, Smith GS. Pre-injury driving records of trauma center patients relative to psychoactive substance use disorders, mode of injury, and BAC status. In: 42nd Annual Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). October 5-7, 1998; Charlottesville, VA.385-400.