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@ SJE & Jamie, re: the fatality and crash data. I have personal knowledge of the data collected by States,DC & PR. What's reported, 1)if there was any fatality (driver, passenger, ped, biker) and 2) if the driver of the vehicle/s or dead non-occupants tested + for alcohol. I have found these data not to be overstated but instead there is a lot of missing data. That is, not every crash that results in a fatality (of a driver, passenger, ped, etc) has data on alcohol because of factors like too much time passed between time of crash and when test of driver could be made, and other factors. It's the FARS data I'm referring to. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/fars.html
In addition, the data I've seen don't assign accountability/blame. It's an observation on the proportion of fatal crashes in which E-OH was present. The greatest interest is in crashes in which a driver was E-OH +. What data collection system are you referring to? It sounds like you're responding to, and unhappy with, interpretations of the FARS data rather then whats in the datasets.

by Bianchi on Dec 31, 2009 12:14 pm • link • report

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