A study at CASR presents a more comprehensive profile of the person, crash and licensing characteristics of road users involved in a casualty crash as a result of alcohol impairment. Of the 1490 cases in the study, drawn from hospital admissions, acute alcohol intoxication was found to be a contributing factor to crash causation in nearly a quarter of those whose alcohol reading was known. Fifty-six per cent of pedestrians and 24 per cent of drivers were found to be alcohol-impaired. Nearly 10 per cent of all in the sample were diagnosed as being alcohol dependent; Indigenous Australians were identified being particularly at risk. More than 40 per cent of those participants identified as being alcohol impaired were found to have incurred at least one previous drink-driving infringement and were twice as likely as other drivers to have had at least one period of licence disqualification.
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