Alcohol and road accidents

Drunk drivers and serious injuries

Alcohol is a major contribution to road accidents and wrongful deaths. In fact, studies show that this is a factor of at least 40% of all car and motorcycle accidents, and causes about 13,000 deaths a year wrong.

The good news is that drinking and driving appears to decline in America in recent decades. A recent survey showed that about 2.2 percent of drivers on the road with blood alcohol content wasthat would be classified as intoxicated in all 50 states.

This figure has been removed from 7.5 percent in 1973 - an important adaptive behavior seen in the last three decades. This can only help to lower accident rates cars and motorcycles, not to mention personal injury and wrongful death suits.

Most news is more disturbing is that if the recent survey was carried out, the drivers were tested for drug use for the first time. An alarming 16.3% of the nightWeekend riders tested positive for drugs - including marijuana (8.6 percent), cocaine (3.9 percent) and over-the-counter and prescription drugs (3.9 percent).

This would mean that we have addressed only one of the main causes of road accidents could be for another. There is also evidence that another recent trend, text messaging while driving, causing accidents than drunk driving. Another interesting new study by doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles made an interesting wrinkle is thatdeadly combination of drinking and automobile accidents - drunk drivers who survive after a serious personal injury may be a better chance, simply because they have consumed alcohol.

38,000 patients who have suffered moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, many of them were due to road accidents, which are used in research. 38 percent had blood alcohol occurs at the time of the injury is - and the patient died had a lower risk totheir injuries than those who do not drink. Overall, 9.7 per cent of people have died, he was not drunk, after a brain injury, compared to 7.7 percent of people with alcohol in the blood.

This certainly should not drink and drive as an encouragement to be taken. "This study really brings more questions than answers," said co-author of the study Ali Salim, MD CNN. "It 'a bad thing to say, alcohol is good, especially because many seniorthese lesions. "