Citation

Tumer AR. Turk. J. Occup. Envir. Med. Saf. 2017; 2(1): e8.

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(Copyright © 2017, Engin TUTKUN; Bozok Üniversitesi)

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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.

Language: en