Alcoholism and Traffic Accidents. A Preliminary Study

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Abstract
A comparison of clinic and other records with a list of 427 males charged with impaired or drunken driving in Toronto during 1954 indicated that at least 2.6% had been clinic patients for alcoholism. This frequency was found to exceed significantly that expected on the basis of the prevalence of alcoholic clinic patients in the drinking population. At least 3.7% more of the drivers had been sufficiently involved with alcohol to invoke legal action 2 or more times within a period of 16 months. It was concluded that the drivers did not represent a random sample of the drinking population with respect to prevalence of alcoholism, and that the hypothesis should be entertained, for future research, that traffic accidents involving drivers who had been drinking are to a considerable extent a problem of alcoholism rather than largely a problem of the effects of alcohol on the casual drinker.

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