Risk of causing a fatal accident associated with alcoholism, psychopathology and stress: further analysis of previous data.

In previous studies the characteristics of 96 drivers judged responsible for accidents involving one or more deaths, were compared with those of a control sample of the same size (Selzer, 1969; Selzer, Rogers and Kern, 1968). This is a further analysis of the same data aimed at estimates of the extent to which alcoholism of frequent high quantity alcohol use, certain manifestations of psychopathology and recent stressful events tend independently and in combination to increase the risk of a driver causing a fatal accident.