CHARACTERISTICS OF FATALLY INJURED DRIVERS FINAL REPORT

THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT DRIVERS WHO DIED IN BALTIMORE CITY AS THE RESULT OF HIGHWAY CRASHES WERE STUDIED, USING AUTOPSY FINDINGS, POLICE REPORTS AND DRIVING RECORDS. AUTOPSY EVIDENCE OF DISEASE WAS NOT CORRELATED WITH DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRASH. A DECREASED ABILITY TO SURVIVE HIGHWAY CRASHES CAUSED OLDER PERSONS TO BE OVER REPRESENTED AMONG FATALLY INJURED DRIVERS ALMOST ONE THIRD OF THE DRIVERS UNDER 25 HAD 2 OR MORE TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS IN THE SINGLE YEAR PRECEDING THEIR FATAL CRASHES. DRIVERS WHO WERE AT FAULT WERE ALMOST FIVE TIMES AS LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN DRINKING HEAVILY BEFORE THE CRASH AS WERE DRIVERS WHO WERE NOT AT FAULT. /HSL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

  School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 North Broadway
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21205
• Authors:
  • Baker, S P
• Publication Date: 1970-2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Traffic conviction
• Uncontrolled Terms: Convictions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220951
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Report/Paper Numbers: 74 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 1970 12:00AM