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Child Injuries and Fatalities From Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes
Call for a Zero-Tolerance Policy
Guohua Li, MD, DrPH
JAMA. 2000;283:2291-2292.
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Alcohol is perhaps the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world. Its many health effects, both adverse and beneficial, have been well documented. For example, in 1998, alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes claimed 15,935 lives in the United States, accounting for 38% of all traffic fatalities.1 Two articles2-3 in this issue of THE JOURNAL highlight the particular circumstances of children who die in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes and shed some light on the relationships of these children to the alcohol-impaired drivers who caused their deaths.
Quinlan and colleagues2 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the characteristics of children who were injured as passengers in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes and the incidence of these crashes. Based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for the years 1985-1996 and the General Estimates System for the years 1988-1996, the authors found that each year . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
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