PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bako, G.
AU  - Mackenzie, W. C.
AU  - Smith, E. S.
TI  - Survey of impaired drivers, fatally injured or surviving, who caused fatal highway accidents in Alberta in 1970-72
DP  - 1976 Nov 06
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 856--857
VI  - 115
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/115/9/856.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/115/9/856.full
SO  - CMAJ1976 Nov 06; 115
AB  - In 1970-72, 456 (53.4%) of 854 drivers responsible for a motor vehicle accident in which either they or other persons were killed had been drinking beforehand. Of surviving culpable drivers tested for blood alcohol concentration 81.7% were found to be legally impaired; however, only 24.8% of these drivers were tested. Because surviving culpable drivers pose a possible future hazard to highway safety it is important that data on this group be collected and analysed.