Author: Journal Injury Prevention via EurekAlert.

  • Reducing impaired-driving crashes proves good for the economy too

    The halving of alcohol-fuelled car crashes since the mid-1980s boosted US economic output by $20 billion, increased national income by $6.5 billion, and created 215,000 jobs in 2010, reveals an analysis of the economic impact of drink-driving, published online in the journal Injury Prevention.In a bid to estimate the impact of alcohol-fuelled car crashes on the…