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Centre for Public Health Excellence NICE. Killoran, Amanda and Canning, Una and Doyle, Nick and Sheppard, Linda (2010) Review of effectiveness of laws limiting blood alcohol concentration levels to reduce alcohol-related road injuries and deaths. London: NICE.

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The review aimed to assess how effective the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) laws are at reducing road traffic injuries and deaths. It also assessed the potential impact of lowering the BAC limit from 0.081 to 0.05.

The review examined:
• drink-driving patterns and the associated risk of being injured or killed in a road traffic accident
• how BAC limits and related legislative measures have changed drink-drinking behaviour and helped reduce alcohol-related road traffic injuries and deaths
• models estimating the potential impact of lowering the BAC limit from 0.08 to 0.05 in England and Wales
• lessons from other countries on using BAC laws as part of overall alcohol control and road safety policies.

A conceptual framework was used to show how, in theory, a law limiting drivers’ BAC levels could lead to changes in how much drivers drink and the number of alcohol-related road traffic injuries and deaths. The review of evidence tested these theoretical links and the robustness of the underlying assumptions.


Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report, Review
Drug Type
Alcohol
Intervention Type
Harm reduction, Crime prevention, Policy
Source
Date
June 2010
Pages
184 p.
Publisher
NICE
Corporate Creators
Centre for Public Health Excellence NICE
Place of Publication
London
EndNote
Accession Number
HRB (Electronic Only)

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