ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
Reduction in fatalities, ambulance calls, and hospital admissions for road trauma after implementation of new traffic laws.
Article in American journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Are Countries' Drink-Driving Policies Associated With Harms Involving Another Driver's Impairment?Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- The burden of road traffic injury among trauma patients in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2019Review
- Can progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities be resumed? Results of a workshop sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation Committee (ANB50).Traffic injury prevention · 2016Article
- The Merits of Adopting a 0.05 Administrative Blood Alcohol Concentration Limit for Driving.American journal of public health · 2016Article
- Declining trends in injuries and ambulance calls for road traffic crashes in Bahrain post new traffic laws of 2015.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2016Article
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objectivesWe evaluated the public health benefits of traffic laws targeting speeding and drunk drivers (British Columbia, Canada, September 2010).
methodsWe studied fatal crashes and ambulance dispatches and hospital admissions for road trauma, using interrupted time series with multiple nonequivalent comparison series. We determined estimates of effect using linear regression models incorporating an autoregressive integrated moving average error term. We used neighboring jurisdictions (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington State) as external controls.
resultsIn the 2 years after implementation of the new laws, significant decreases occurred in fatal crashes (21.0%; 95% confidence interval [CI]=15.3, 26.4) and in hospital admissions (8.0%; 95% CI=0.6, 14.9) and ambulance calls (7.2%; 95% CI=1.1, 13.0) for road trauma. We found a very large reduction in alcohol-related fatal crashes (52.0%; 95% CI=34.5, 69.5), and the benefits of the new laws are likely primarily the result of a reduction in drinking and driving.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that laws calling for immediate sanctions for dangerous drivers can reduce road trauma and should be supported.
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