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Abstract
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The following is an abstract of a paper that was presented at the Spring Meeting of ENAR held at Florida State University at Tallahassee, Florida on April 29 through May 1, 1965. The full paper is not reproduced in the journal.
The data to be analyzed were obtained by Borkenstein, et al. (1964) [The Role of the Drinking Driver in Traffic Accidents, Department of Police Administration, Indiana University] in a survey of drivers in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A group of drivers in traffic accidents was compared to a control group selected from the traffic stream to match the accident group with respect to time and place of section. Drivers were classified by blood alcohol level and eight other variables such as age and education level.
Two-way classifications by alcohol level and each of the other variables were examined, and data concerning drivers at low alcohol levels were not found to provide evidence for any alcohol level other than zero at which accident risk is at a minimum. A relative accident rate is defined and is used to estimate the proportion of accidents attributable, in a certain sense, to alcohol. |