Impact of Extended Drinking Hours in Ontario on Motor-Vehicle Collision and Non-Motor-Vehicle Collision Injuries

Vingilis, Evelyn; McLeod, A. Ian; Stoduto, Gina; Seeley, Jane; Mann, Robert E.

doi:10.15288/jsad.2007.68.905

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“…Although the risk of alcohol-attributable injury from motor vehicle accidents (MVA) is the most visible connection in the research literature and popular media, a large body of work has shown that alcohol consumption is broadly associated with the risk of both intentional and unintentional injury in cross-sectional (Watt et al, 2005; Vingilis et al, 2007; Goodman et al, 1991; Malmivaara et al, 1993; Ivers et al, 2006), case-crossover (Borges et al, 2006; Vinson et al, 2003), and case-control analyses (Peck et al, 2008; Smith et al, 2001). The most common mode of sustaining an alcohol-attributable injury is from a single occasion of acute alcohol consumption, most commonly leading to intoxication and/or drunkenness and thus impairment.…”

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The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

Taylor

Irving

Kanteres

et al. 2010

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Alcohol consumption causes injury in a dose-response manner. The most common mode of sustaining an alcohol-attributable injury is from a single occasion of acute alcohol consumption, but much of the injury literature employs usual consumption habits to assess risk instead. An analysis of the acute dose-response relationship between alcohol and injury is warranted to generate single occasion- and dose-specific relative risks. A systematic literature review and meta-analysis was conducted to fill this gap. Linear and best-fit first-order model were used to model the data. Usual tests of heterogeneity and publication bias were run. Separate meta-analyses were run for motor vehicle and non motor vehicle injuries, as well as case-control and case-crossover studies. The risk of injury increases non-linearly with increasing alcohol consumption. For motor vehicle accidents, the odds ratio increases by 1.24 (95% CI: 1.18–1.31) per 10-gram in pure alcohol increase to 52.0 (95% CI: 34.50 – 78.28) at 120 grams. For non-motor vehicle injury, the OR increases by 1.30 (95% CI: 1.26–1.34) to an OR of 24.2 at 140 grams (95% CI: 16.2 – 36.2). Case-crossover studies of non-MVA injury result in overall higher risks than case-control studies and the per-drink increase in odds of injury was highest for intentional injury, at 1.38 (95% CI: 1.22 – 1.55). Efforts to reduce drinking both on an individual level and a population level are important. No level of consumption is safe when driving and less than 2 drinks per occasion should be encouraged to reduce the risk of injury.

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The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

Taylor

Irving

Kanteres

et al. 2010

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

382

291

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“…For instance, when laws allowing alcohol sales on Sunday were introduced in New Mexico, the number of alcohol-related traffic deaths and crash fatalities increased relative to the pre-allowance period [5]. Although there are some exceptions to this pattern [8], existing data are broadly consistent with the alcohol availability hypothesis that higher alcohol accessibility predicts both greater alcohol consumption and consumption-related harm [9]. One method of examining the influence of alcohol availability on DWI charges is by investigating the business hours of social premises licensed to serve alcohol (e.g., pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants).…”

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Temporal Alcohol Availability Predicts First-Time Drunk Driving, but Not Repeat Offending

Schofield

Denson

2013

PLoS ONE

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Alcohol availability has been linked to drunk driving, but research has not examined whether this relationship is the same for first-time and repeat offenses. We examined the relationship between the business hours of alcohol outlets licensed to serve alcohol for on-premises consumption and misdemeanor-level (first offense) and felony-level drunk driving (repeat offense) charges in New York State in 2009. Longer outlet business hours were associated with more misdemeanor drunk driving charges, but were not associated with felony drunk driving charges. The per capita density of on-premises alcohol outlets did not affect misdemeanor or felony drunk driving charges. The results suggest that temporal alcohol availability may be an impelling factor for first-time drunk driving, but other factors likely influence repeat drunk driving behaviors.

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“…Vingilis and colleagues examined the impact of extended drinking hours on casualties and found a complex pattern of outcomes, whereby in Ontario as a whole, no increases were found in alcohol-related, police-reported motor vehicle collision (MVC) driver fatalities (Vingilis et al, 2005) or in MVC injuries based on hospital trauma data, although increases in non-MVC injuries based on hospital trauma data were found for the time period during which the drinking hour was extended (Vingilis et al, 2007). A survey of licensed establishments in Ontario, reported by Vingilis et al (2005), suggested that some licensed establishments did not implement the extended drinking hours.…”

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A Tale of Two Cities: The Effect of Extended Drinking Hours in Licensed Establishments on Impaired Driving and Assault Charges

Vingilis¹,

McLeod²,

Mann³

et al. 2008

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Objectives On May 1, 1996, Ontario, Canada, amended the Liquor Licence Act to extend the hours of alcohol sales and service in licensed establishments from 1 to 2 a.m. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of extended drinking hours on two cities in southwestern Ontario, Canada, one of which (London) would be affected by the alcohol control policy of extended drinking hours and the second city (Windsor) would be affected by two alcohol policies, extended drinking hours, and cross-border legal drinking age differences between Ontario and Michigan. Specifically, this study tested whether there were differences in impaired driving and assault charges in London and Windsor, Ontario, concomitant with the extended drinking hour amendment. Methods A quasi-experimental design using interrupted time series was used to assess changes. The analyzed data sets were monthly police impaired driving and assault charges data for Ontario, for the 11–12 p.m., 12–1 a.m., 1–2 a.m., 2–3 a.m. and 3–4 a.m. time windows, for 4 years pre- and 3 years post-policy change. Results Overall, London and Windsor exhibited significant overall reductions in impaired driving charges and no changes for assault charges aggregated over the 11 p.m.–4 a.m. time period after the drinking hours were extended. Within the different time windows, London showed significant decreases for the 1–2 a.m. Sunday–Wednesday and Thursday–Sunday time periods and a significant increase for the Sunday–Wednesday 3–4 a.m. time period, while Windsor demonstrated significant decreases in impaired driving charges for 1–2 a.m. Sunday–Wednesday and Thursday–Saturday time periods and significant increases for Sunday–Wednesday 2–3 and 3–4 a.m. and for Thursday–Saturday 2–3 a.m. For assault charges, no overall pre–post differences were found for the aggregated 11 p.m.–4 a.m. time period for either city. When the data were disaggregated by hour, a significant decrease was found in London for Thursday–Saturday 1–2 a.m. and significant increases for Sunday–Wednesday 2–3 a.m. and Thursday–Saturday 3–4 a.m. time periods, while no significant decreases were found in Windsor during the 1–2 a.m. time periods and one significant increase occurred during the Thursday–Saturday 2–3 a.m. time period. Conclusions These findings, based on police data, suggest no overall effect on charges aggregated over the 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. time window, although some differences were observed for the different hours after 2 a.m., with a possible effect of the one hour extension of drinking in licensed establishments.

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Impact of Extended Drinking Hours in Ontario on Motor-Vehicle Collision and Non-Motor-Vehicle Collision Injuries

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

Temporal Alcohol Availability Predicts First-Time Drunk Driving, but Not Repeat Offending

A Tale of Two Cities: The Effect of Extended Drinking Hours in Licensed Establishments on Impaired Driving and Assault Charges

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