Citation

Baker SP, Chen L. Annu. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. 2002; 46: 179-191.

Affiliation

Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12361507

Abstract

We determined the risk of involvement in fatal crashes on Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., based upon data from the National Roadside Survey in comparison with data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Among drivers negative for alcohol, white drivers had about half the risk of black drivers (OR=0.49, 95% CI=0.26, 0.90) when other risk factors were controlled. Among drivers with BACs of 0.08% and higher, however, the findings suggest that whites had a greater risk, although this difference did not reach statistical significance (OR=1.64, CI=0.91, 2.97). The racial difference in risk between alcohol-negative drivers and drivers with illegal BACs was not explained by restraint use but may reflect more severe crashes by intoxicated white drivers.