Blood alcohol concentrations of pedestrians admitted to hospital.

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Holubowycz, O.T. McLean, A.J. & Kloeden, C.N.
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Abstract

This paper presents some results of a study of the relationship between alcohol, age and sex among pedestrian casualties. During a continuous 22-month period, 232 pedestrians aged over 14 were admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia. Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was measured for 213 of these cases. Table 1 shows the age and sex of the pedestrians admitted. Half were aged over 40, and almost two thirds were male. Table 2 shows the distribution of BAC for males and females. The males drank much more than the females, especially at very high BACs. Graphs show: (1)the hospital admissions per 10,000 population by age for all males and females and for males and females with BAC less than 0.1; (2) the distribution of BAC for car drivers, motorcyclists and pedestrians. It was found that teenagers, old people, and alcohol-affected young and middle-aged males were at increased risk of serious injuries from crash involvement as a pedestrian. The author recommends that young and middle-aged males should be made aware of the risk of walking on or across the road when drunk.

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C 10447 (In: C 10387 [electronic version only]) /81 /83 / IRRD 866689
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In: Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety : proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety T92, held under the auspices of the International Committee on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety ICADTS, Cologne, Germany, 28 September - 2 October 1992, Band 2, p. 977-980, 3 ref.

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