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JAMA. 2000;283:598-599.

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MMWR. 1999;38:1086-1087

The following table compares alcohol involvement in fatal motor-vehicle crashes by age group and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels for 1997 and 1998. A fatal crash is considered alcohol-related by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) if either a driver or nonoccupant (e.g., pedestrian) had a BAC of 0.01 g/dL in a police-reported traffic crash. Because BACs are not available for all persons in fatal crashes, NHTSA estimates the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities on the basis of a discriminant analysis of information from all cases for which driver or nonoccupant BAC data are available.¹

Overall, the percentage of traffic fatalities that were alcohol related remained constant at 38.4% in 1998 and 38.5% in 1997. From 1997 to 1998, the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities decreased 1.6% (95% confidence interval = -3.7%-0.6%), with a decease of 2.0% for BACs 0.10 g/dL (the legal limit of intoxication in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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