Prepared by
D.R. Mayhew, S. W. Brown and H.M. Simpson
The Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

TP 11759 E
2002

ABSTRACT

This report describes the magnitude and characteristics of the alcohol-crash problem in Canada during 2000 as well as trends in the problem.

Information contained in this report was drawn from two national databases compiled and maintained by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) and funded jointly by Transport Canada and the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA). One database contains information on persons fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes; the other has information on persons seriously injured in motor vehicle crashes.

Since 1998, the title and contents of this report have differed from previous annual reports in this series produced by TIRF under funding from Transport Canada and CCMTA. Previous reports focussed exclusively on the alcohol-fatal crash problem, defined in terms of the number and percent of fatally injured drivers (and pedestrians) who had been drinking. The present report (as well as those for 1998 and 1999) also includes data on alcohol in fatally injured drivers and pedestrians but it extends information about the magnitude of the alcohol-crash problem in two ways: the report examines the number and percent of people who died in alcohol-related crashes; and it examines alcohol involvement in those crashes in which someone was seriously injured but not killed.

Thus, in the report, various indicators are used to estimate the magnitude and extent of the alcohol-crash problem in Canada during 2000 as well as changes in the problem over the past few years. The indicators include:

• the number and percent of people who were killed in crashes that involved alcohol;
• the number and percent of fatally injured drivers who had been drinking;
• the number and percent of fatally injured pedestrians who had been drinking; and
• the number and percent of drivers in serious injury crashes that involved alcohol.

As well, these indicators are presented separately for each province and territory.

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