NCJ Number
137721
Date Published
1992
Length
184 pages
Annotation
This report describes the conduct of a project to compile data on alcohol use by persons fatally injured in motor vehicle accidents that have occurred on or off public highways in Canada.
Abstract
Data from this ongoing project are obtained from police-reported information on the characteristics of the victim and details of the fatal motor vehicle accident, as well as coroners' and medical examiners' files for objective, toxicological data from body fluid samples (mostly blood) on alcohol use among victims. The primary focus of this report is alcohol use by fatally injured drivers, because this group of road users is of greatest interest to traffic safety officials, and the rate of testing for alcohol is consistently higher among these drivers than other groups of road users. This report contains general descriptive information on the frequency and quantity of alcohol found in drivers fatally injured in motor vehicle collisions in Canada during 1990 and trends in alcohol detected among fatally injured operators of automobiles, trucks/vans, motorcycles, and tractor-trailers. Data are presented separately for each Province and Territory. General descriptive information on the incidence of alcohol use among fatally injured drivers is first presented, followed by trends in alcohol use among fatally injured automobile drivers. Appended historical overview of the Fatality Data Base Project, a more detailed description of project design, and 15 references