Impaired driving continues to be a leading contributor to fatalities and serious injuries on Canadian roads. In 1999, the latest year for which national data is available, 33% of all fatally injured drivers had been drinking. Almost 20% of drivers were in serious injury crashes that involved alcohol. The current Canadian strategy to manage this problem, which was formulated by the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators and endorsed by the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety in 1995, officially comes to an end in 2001. This document describes a successor strategy, titled "Strategy to Reduce Impaired Driving 2010 (STRID 2010). This strategy builds on the experience gained from two previous strategies and a recent national workshop on impaired driving. (Author/publisher)
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