Drug Involvement in Automobile Driver and Pedestrian Fatalities
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by ASTM International in Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Vol. 19 (1) , 90-97
- https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs10074j
Abstract
It has been recognized that traffic crashes are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In many of these traffic deaths drugs are directly or indirectly involved. The drug most commonly encountered is alcohol, but the extent of involvement of other drugs is unknown.Keywords
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