Alcoholism, mental illness, and stress in 96 drivers causing fatal accidents

摘要: Surviving and deceased drivers responsible for 96 fatal accidents during a 38-month period in Washtenaw County, Michigan, like number of matched controls were evaluated to determine the prevalence alcoholism, psychopathology, social stress, as well other medical variables. Information was obtained through interviews drivers, their relatives, friends, employers from traffic arrest records. Thirty-six fatality three control chronic alcoholics. In addition, 11 six classified ldquofrequent, high quantity usersrdquo beverage alcohol herein defined. The 96-driver group differed significantly many respects group. However, magnitude discrepancy often due presence 36 alcoholics group.The averaged more previous (1.2 versus 0.8) moving violations (3.1 1.7) than group, exhibited psychopathology (41 percent 17 percent) stress (52 18 percent), included low-social-class persons (76 54 fewer higher-social-class (5 29 alcoholic overrepresented involving only one vehicle those occurring at night. they had accidents, serious (69 25 (72 42 60 nonalcoholic drivers.