File Download

There are no files associated with this item.

  Links for fulltext
     (May Require Subscription)
Supplementary

Article: Association between drink driving and severity of crash injuries to road users

TitleAssociation between drink driving and severity of crash injuries to road users
Authors
KeywordsAlcohol drinking
Automobile driving
Ethanol
Traffic accidents
Wounds and injuries
Issue Date2010
PublisherMedcom Limited. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkcem.com/html/publications/
Citation
Hong Kong Journal Of Emergency Medicine, 2010, v. 17 n. 1, p. 34-39 How to Cite?
AbstractObjective:To determine the association between alcohol impairment in drivers and risk of severe injury in other road users in Hong Kong. Method:The Road Casualty Injury Information System (RoCIS) was set up by linking a regional hospital injury registry to the police traffic injury database. Based on the year 2004 linked dataset, a specific model namely the External Casualty Model (ECM) was designed to measure the association between severe injury outcome of other (non-driver) road user casualties (as stratified by ISS groups [ISS <9 or ISS ≥9]) and the level of alcohol impairment (as measured by breath alcohol concentration [BAC <22 μg/100 ml or BAC ≥22 μg/100 ml]) in drivers involving in the crash, controlling for the driver's demographics (age and sex) and behaviour (as measured by driving-offence points [DOP]) and another attribute (day of week of crash). Binary logistic regression was used in the analysis. Results: Out of 1818 matched RoCIS cases in the year 2004, 439 ECM records were available for analysis. Alcohol impaired drivers led to a significantly higher risk of severe injury to other road users (OR=4.2, 95%CI=1.21, 14.36, p=0.02). Crashes on weekdays seemingly led to a lower severe injury risk (OR=0.57, p=0.08) than crashes on weekends. DOP of drivers did not predict a higher severe injury risk to other road users. Conclusions: Alcohol impairment on driver increases the risk of severe injury to other road users by four times. Road safety education campaign should stress on this adverse impact of drink driving on innocent people.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/70975
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 0.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.297
ISI Accession Number ID
References

 

DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorTsui, KLen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSze, NNen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSo, FLen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWong, SCen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-06T06:27:47Z-
dc.date.available2010-09-06T06:27:47Z-
dc.date.issued2010en_HK
dc.identifier.citationHong Kong Journal Of Emergency Medicine, 2010, v. 17 n. 1, p. 34-39en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1024-9079en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/70975-
dc.description.abstractObjective:To determine the association between alcohol impairment in drivers and risk of severe injury in other road users in Hong Kong. Method:The Road Casualty Injury Information System (RoCIS) was set up by linking a regional hospital injury registry to the police traffic injury database. Based on the year 2004 linked dataset, a specific model namely the External Casualty Model (ECM) was designed to measure the association between severe injury outcome of other (non-driver) road user casualties (as stratified by ISS groups [ISS <9 or ISS ≥9]) and the level of alcohol impairment (as measured by breath alcohol concentration [BAC <22 μg/100 ml or BAC ≥22 μg/100 ml]) in drivers involving in the crash, controlling for the driver's demographics (age and sex) and behaviour (as measured by driving-offence points [DOP]) and another attribute (day of week of crash). Binary logistic regression was used in the analysis. Results: Out of 1818 matched RoCIS cases in the year 2004, 439 ECM records were available for analysis. Alcohol impaired drivers led to a significantly higher risk of severe injury to other road users (OR=4.2, 95%CI=1.21, 14.36, p=0.02). Crashes on weekdays seemingly led to a lower severe injury risk (OR=0.57, p=0.08) than crashes on weekends. DOP of drivers did not predict a higher severe injury risk to other road users. Conclusions: Alcohol impairment on driver increases the risk of severe injury to other road users by four times. Road safety education campaign should stress on this adverse impact of drink driving on innocent people.en_HK
dc.languageengen_HK
dc.publisherMedcom Limited. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkcem.com/html/publications/en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofHong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicineen_HK
dc.subjectAlcohol drinkingen_HK
dc.subjectAutomobile drivingen_HK
dc.subjectEthanolen_HK
dc.subjectTraffic accidentsen_HK
dc.subjectWounds and injuriesen_HK
dc.titleAssociation between drink driving and severity of crash injuries to road usersen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.openurlhttp://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1024-9079&volume=17&issue=1&spage=34&epage=39&date=2010&atitle=Association+between+drink+driving+and+severity+of+crash+injuries+to+road+usersen_HK
dc.identifier.emailWong, SC:hhecwsc@hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.authorityWong, SC=rp00191en_HK
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/102490791001700106-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-75749091182en_HK
dc.identifier.hkuros168690en_HK
dc.relation.referenceshttp://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-75749091182&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpageen_HK
dc.identifier.volume17en_HK
dc.identifier.issue1en_HK
dc.identifier.spage34en_HK
dc.identifier.epage39en_HK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000273600800006-
dc.publisher.placeHong Kongen_HK
dc.identifier.scopusauthoridTsui, KL=35745300400en_HK
dc.identifier.scopusauthoridSze, NN=8412831200en_HK
dc.identifier.scopusauthoridSo, FL=7003481644en_HK
dc.identifier.scopusauthoridWong, SC=24323361400en_HK
dc.identifier.issnl1024-9079-

Export via OAI-PMH Interface in XML Formats


OR


Export to Other Non-XML Formats