Showing posts with label legislation reducing drinking and driving fatalities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legislation reducing drinking and driving fatalities. Show all posts

Purchase and possession laws reduce auto-related accidents

According to a story in HealthDay, laws that are most effective when it comes to reducing the number of drinking-related auto accidents are:

" . . . laws targeting the purchase and possession of alcohol by youth, including use-and-lose laws that allow the suspension of a driver's license for any underage alcohol violation and zero-tolerance laws that make it illegal for young people to drive with any amount of alcohol in their system."

Later in the article it states:

"The culture and drinking habits in which a young person was reared also affected the incidence of drinking and driving fatalities, the researchers said."

"We found a direct relationship between beer consumption per capita between drinking and driving accidents," Fell said. "We'd like to have underage beer drinking per capita, but that information isn't available."