Drinking and driving : report of the Departmental Committee [on Drinking and Driving].

  • Great Britain. Departmental Committee on Drinking and Driving
Date:
1976
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Drinking and driving : report of the Departmental Committee [on Drinking and Driving]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VARIATION OF ACCIDENT RISK Appendix 2 WITH BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT a These analyses are based on a study by the Department of Police Administration, Indiana University. * They compared a group of 5985 drivers involved in accidents in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a control group of 7590 drivers selected from the City’s traffic. Relative risk of being involved in an accident. To 40 Key. e@Relative risk estimated from the Grand Rapids survey. Although the true value is not known the probability that it lies outside the range shown by the line is less than 5 per cent. 20 15 10 Legal Limit Risk when alcohol content is below | | | ! 1 I ! { ! ! | | ' 10mg 100 mi. So =] PSP Ww & wm 40 80 120 160 200 Blood Alcohol Content -mg/100ml *R.F. Borkenstein Et. al. ‘The Role of the Drinking Driver in Traffic Accidents .