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Driving under the influence of alcohol, or drink-driving, is a key risk factor for 27% of all road injuries. Thus, drink-driving is a significant public health problem that affects not only the alcohol user but also, in many cases, innocent parties such as passengers and pedestrians.
- Brief Interventions and Treatment
Access to health services is central to tackling...
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Alcohol taxation and pricing policies are among the most...
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Bans and comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising,...
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Where alcohol is legal, the government has several...
- About SAFER
Advance and enforce drink driving countermeasures....
- Road Safety
In the case of drug-driving, the risk of road traffic injury...
- Brief Interventions and Treatment
12 paź 2023 · Infographic: Focus on Drink-Driving. About the European Road Safety Observatory. Details. Publication date. 12 October 2023. Author. Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. Drivers who have been drinking are 15 times more likely to be involved in fatal crashes than sober drivers.
1 cze 2024 · Despite legal sanctions in place, people continue to drive after drinking alcohol; in fact, it was reported that drivers impaired by alcohol were responsible for 147 million instances of driving under the influence in 2018 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020).
17 sty 2018 · Each year, more than 1.3 million people are killed on roadways and another 50 million are injured. Recognizing this serious global public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2011–2020 as the Decade of Action on Road Safety (WHO, 2013). Drink-driving 2 is a major cause of global road traffic fatalities.
17 sty 2018 · INTRODUCTION. To accelerate progress to reduce alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, it is important to understand the context in which these fatalities occur, as noted in the committee's conceptual framework (see Figure 1-5). This includes the trends and patterns of alcohol-impaired driving and the impacts and costs borne by society.
When it comes to drunk driving, it affects more than just the driver. In 2022, among children (14 and younger) killed in motor vehicle crashes, 25% were killed in drunk-driving crashes. Of those deaths, more than half the time (57%) the child killed was in the vehicle driven by the drunk driver.
18 lut 2023 · Despite a large body of research having investigated the antecedents of drink driving offending to inform deterrence initiatives (Freeman et al. 2021a, 2020, 2016), the behaviour remains an ongoing safety risk among all roads and communities.
