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Drink-driving programmes to reduce alcohol-related injury in car crashes
Summary of the evidence
Drink-driving service (free transport home - ‘Tipsy Taxi’ service (operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year) providing a free ride home for persons too intoxicated to drive. Service offered by bar employee or request made to bar employee by patron. Control areas had no such service.) for intoxicated drinkers was found to be effective in a systematic review (Ker and Chinnock, 2008) in:
- reducing injury in car crashes: 15 % reduction in the experimental area (reported as ‘highly significant’), with no change in the control.
- reducing fatal crashes (ratio reduced from 0.78 to 0.60, P = 0.29 – not statistically significant).
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Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
