PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 6 June 1986, pp. 870-872
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Children in Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes

Lewis H. Margolis MD, MPH1, Jonathan Kotch MD, MPH1, and John H. Lacey MPH1

1 From the Department of Health Planning and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Department of Maternal and Child Health and the Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Review of North Carolina traffic crash data revealed that alcohol use, although associated with 7.9% of motor vehicle crashes involving children, accounted for 15.4% of the motor vehicle-related deaths and 10.4% of the injuries. The largest proportion of these deaths were child passengers in a vehicle in which the driver had been drinking, followed by child passengers in multiple-vehicle crashes in which the other driver had been drinking. The smallest proportion of deaths were child pedestrians. These findings suggest that, in addition to supporting more stringent alcohol control legislation, health care providers should be admonishing parents about the deadly hazards of drinking and driving to the children in their care.

Key Words: alcohol • motor vehicle accident

Submitted on July 16, 1985
Accepted on August 23, 1985




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