Influence of alcohol on road safety in Poland 2007-2023
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https://doi.org/10.24136/tren.2025.008Keywords:
road safety, road accident, road accident victim, alcohol in trafficAbstract
The article analyzes changes in the number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities in different groups of traffic participants, especially those involving and caused by intoxicated traffic participants, drivers, and passenger car drivers. The rates of victims, injuries, and fatalities of accidents per 100 accidents were used. The number of accidents fell by nearly 58%, fatalities by 66%, injuries and victims by 62%. The number of accidents caused by intoxicated traffic participants, injuries, and victims is falling faster than the number of all accidents. In the case of fatalities, the number of fatalities per 100 accidents is increasing. Drivers are the dominant, growing, group of traffic participants causing accidents. Statistically, the number of victims in accidents caused by drivers is higher than victims in other accidents. The percentage of accidents and injuries caused by intoxicated drivers is falling, but the number of fatalities per 100 accidents has risen dramatically. Of the road safety indicators considered, in principle, only for the indicators of the number of casualties per 100 accidents can a linear trend be considered. For 50 linear trend models of various indicators, the R2 fit is at least good (>0.8), but for 36 of them other criteria are not met.
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