@article{ref1,
title="Drink special laws and alcohol-related fatal crashes in the United States [conference abstract]",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2021",
author="Puac-Polanco, Victor and Mauro, Pia and Keyes, Katherine and Branas, Charles C.",
volume="27",
number="Suppl 2",
pages="A58 7C.003-A58 7C.003",
abstract="Virtual Pre-Conference Global Injury Prevention Showcase 2021 - Abstract Book - # 7C.003  Background In the United States, every day, close to 30 people die in alcohol-impaired related crashes. Given the known role of alcohol in traffic injuries, we assessed the impact of drink special laws on alcohol- and non-alcohol-related fatal motor vehicle crash rates.   Methods We performed a synthetic control analysis of US data from 1982 to 2017. We used publicly available data to evaluate the effects of implementing any drink special law at the state-level during the study period on fatality rates per 100 million vehicle-miles of travel. We used an enhanced version of the SC method for the analysis of multiple treated units.   Results Overall, treated states with any drink special law reduced alcohol-related fatal crashes per 100 million VMT by 0.01 (p-value = 0.84) in year one, 0.10 (p-value = 0.14) in year three, 0.07 (p-value = 0.28) in year five, and 0.16 (p-value = 0.01) in year 10 post-implementation compared to the synthetic control trend. Implementation of any drink special law also produced reductions of non-alcohol-related fatal crashes per 100 million VMT by 0.19 (p-value = 0.11) in year one, 0.24 (p-value = 0.03) in year three, 0.25 (p-value = 0.00) in year five, and 0.18 (p-value = 0.00) in year 10 compared to the synthetic control trend. <br><br>FINDINGS for the number of laws implemented and each drink special laws were mixed.   Conclusions Drink special laws appeared to be associated with larger reductions of non-alcohol-related fatal crashes but no with the hypothesized target population, the alcohol-related fatal crashes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/injuryprev-2021-safety.176",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-safety.176"
}