Space-Time Analyses of Alcohol Outlets and Related Motor Vehicle Crashes: Associations at City and Census Block-Group Levels.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Past research has linked alcohol outlet densities to drinking, drunken driving, and alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes (MVCs). Because impaired drivers travel some distances from drinking places to crash locations, spatial relationships between outlets and crashes are complex. We investigate these relationships at 3 geographic levels: census block groups (CBGs), adjacent (nearby) areas, and whole cities.

Methods

We examined risks of all injury MVCs as well as "had been drinking" (HBD) and single-vehicle-nighttime (SVN) subgroups using data from the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System across CBGs among 50 California cities from 2001 to 2008. Relationships between outlet densities at the city level, within CBGs, and in adjacent CBGs and crashes were exami

SUBMITTER: Lipton R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984166 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature