ALCOHOL CONTROL MEASURES AND TRAFIC SAFETY
Abstract
There is a huge impact
of alcohol on trafic safety. Motor vehicle collision risk increases with driving
after drinking. This problem has too many aspects that can be argued; limits of
legal comsumtion, alcohol avalibility in public, alcohol purchaseage and alcohol
saling storage opening and closing hours.
Development of
reliable tecnology for measurement of alcohol in the body and theability to
link it to increased collision risk of drinking-driving showed us that lowering
legal consumption limits down can reduce drinking-driving collision, injury and
death rates in th population. Also a corelation between per capita consumption with
drinking-driving was observed. Several studies have confirmed that an increase
of one litre in per capita consumption of alcohol was associated with an
increase in drink-driver fatality rate between %8 and 14%. Another aspect for consumption
is price and taxes. A substantial amount of research demostrates that the price
of alcohol or the amount of tax charged is a significant determinant of alcohol
consumption. Researchers observed a significant negative relationship between price
of alcohol and fatality rates. In some cases, there ductions in legal drinking age
from 21 to 18 years caused adverse affects liked ecraesed trafic safety so analyses
provide strong evidence for the impact of the increased legal drinkin gage,
with important reductions in drink-driving rates and assosiated deaths. Also another
research showed us that hours of sale and accesibility or density of outlets increses
the rate of drink-driver fatality.
To sum up drink-driving
remains a leading cause of alcohol-related deaths. Additil progress in reducing
those deaths will come from several sources, including social evolution,
improved counter measures, and learning from international experience. We have seen
that alcohol control policies can have a substantial effect on traffic safety measures
from now on alcohol control policies unlike in the past may receive more attention
to improve trafic safety.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Ali Rıza TÜMER
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Konferans Bildirisi
Yazarlar
Ali Rıza Tümer
Bu kişi benim
Yayımlanma Tarihi
16 Şubat 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
3 Nisan 2017
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: Volume 2 Sayı: İssue 1 (1)