The Relative Risk of Motor Vehicle Collision on Cannabis Celebration Day in Great Britain

Cannabis celebration day, also known as “420 day”, takes place at 4:20pm on April 20 every year. The objective of this paper is to study whether there is an increase in road traffic collisions in Great Britain on that day. The authors used daily car crash data resulting in death or injury from all 51 local police forces covering Great Britain over the period 2011–2015. The authors compared crashes from 4:20pm onwards on April 20 to control days on the same day of the week in the preceding and succeeding two weeks, using panel data econometric models. On the average cannabis celebration day in Britain, there were an additional 23 police-reported collisions compared to control days, corresponding to a 17.9% increase in the relative risk of collision.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.02.013
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457519302374
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  • © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Vandoros, Sotiris
  • 0000-0002-9458-4988
  • Kawachi, Ichiro
• Publication Date: 2019-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 248-252
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 128
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Crash rates; Holidays; Marijuana; Risk assessment; Traffic law enforcement
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01707838
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 12 2019 9:22AM