{"id":3764,"date":"2009-08-07T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2009-08-23T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T14:40:24","slug":"drivers-ages-21-to-34-disproportionately-involved-in-drunk-driving-fatal-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/drivers-ages-21-to-34-disproportionately-involved-in-drunk-driving-fatal-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Ages 21 to 34 Disproportionately Involved in Drunk-Driving Fatal Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Research Summary<\/span><br \/>\nDrivers ages 21 to 34 comprise a disproportionate share of fatal motor vehicle crashes in which at least one of the drivers was legally intoxicated (had a BAC of .08 or greater), according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).<br \/>\nAlthough drivers ages 21 to 34 were involved in 31% of all fatal crashes in 2006, they were involved in 43% of all fatal crashes in which at least one driver was intoxicated.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, drivers ages 45 or older were involved in 36% of all fatal crashes, but just 23% of drunk-driving fatal crashes.<br \/>\nThese findings suggest that prevention efforts may be most effective if they focus on educating young adult drivers about the dangers of driving while intoxicated.<br \/>\n<em>Source: , from The Center on Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland. October 1, 2007<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Summary Drivers ages 21 to 34 comprise a disproportionate share of fatal motor vehicle crashes in which at least one of the drivers was legally intoxicated (had a BAC of .08 or greater), according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Although drivers ages 21 to 34 were involved in 31% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,68,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-prevention-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}