TY - JOUR PY - 2001// TI - A linkage study of Western Australian drink driving arrests and road crash records JO - Accident analysis and prevention A1 - Marom, Y. A1 - Ferrante, A. M. A1 - Rosman, D. L. SP - 211 EP - 220 VL - 33 IS - 2 N2 - Records of drivers in all reported road crashes occurring in Western Australia between 1987 and 1995 were linked with records of all drink driving arrests in the same period. About 7% of all drink driving arrests occurred because of a road crash. Differences were observed between these drink-driving crashes and other types of road crashes. Drink driving crashes tended to be more severe than those not involving alcohol. Serious crashes (involving fatalities or hospitalisations) accounted for 20% of alcohol-related crashes, but only 6% of all crashes reported over the study period. From another perspective, crash-related drink-driving arrests were more likely than routine enforcement arrests to involve younger (18-35 years) and older (65 years and over) drink drivers. Routine enforcement arrests, on the other hand, were likely to involve a greater proportion of Aboriginal drivers. LA - en SN - 0001-4575 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -