The injured alcohol-impaired driver : a prospective study of culpability and accountability.

Author(s)
Maul, K.I. Kinning, L.S. & Hickman, J.K.
Year
Abstract

During the three-year period ending October, 1982, driver records, crash reports and blood alcohol concentrations were correlated on 56 impaired drivers injured seriously enough to warrant hospital admission. Blood alcohol concentration exceeded 0.15 vol % in all patients. Despite a high level of suspicion of alcohol involvement (82%) and assessment of culpability (98%) by the law enforcement officer at the scene, there were no dui convictions among this problem drinker population. Injury appears to offer additional protection from enforcement of dui statutes and, if the patient survives his injuries, allows the offender to resume driving without interdiction.(a) for the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 275763.

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B 22853 (In: B 22851 [electronic version only]) /83/ IRRD 275765
Source

In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the American Association of the Automotive Medicine (AAAM), San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983, p. 13-21, 10 ref.

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