Alcohol use, driving records, and crash culpability among injured motorcycle drivers

✍ Scribed by Carl A. Soderstrom; Patricia C. Dischinger; Shiu Man Ho; Margaret T. Soderstrom

• Book ID: 102979802
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 766 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-4575
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(93)90035-u

✦ Synopsis

Abs~ct-Alcohol use, driving records, crash culpability, and crash conviction rates for 165 injured motorcycle drivers (MTCDs) were studied. Of the 165 MTCDs, 53.3% tested positive for alcohol (BAC+). Culpability determinations (n = 150) revealed that 83% of BAC+ and 46% of BAC-MTCDs caused their crashes (p < 0.001). Driving records (n = 145) revealed the following prevalence of one or more convictions for BAC+ and BAC-MTCDs: impaired driving (2% vs. 7%, p < 0.001); speeding (74% vs. 58%, p < 0.05); and reckless driving (68% vs. 44%, p < 0.002). Of the surviving culpable impaired MCTDs (n = 48), 16.7% received crash-related convictions, 12.5% received ~cohol-related convictions. The reasons for the low conviction rates are probably multifactoral.