Northern Ireland Drink Driving Problem Profile, 2013-2017
An analysis of drink driving fatal and serious collisions data to identify any emerging issues and examine the profile of those drivers responsible.
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The report analyses official data sources and reports on trend information for drink and drug driving from 2002; it looks at the age, gender and road user category of people who were killed or seriously injured due to impairment by alcohol between 2013 and 2017 and compares this to the 2004-2008 baseline. It looks at where drink driving sits in comparison with the top ten principal causation factors and examines when these collisions are likely to occur contrasting this against the time recorded for most fatal and serious collisions. There is also analysis examining the age, gender and road user type of those responsible for drink driving collisions and a similar profile of those who were killed or seriously injured as a result of these. Other detail includes analysis by speed limit of road and the number that were single vehicle collisions to check if there is any overrepresentation of these in comparison with all KSI collisions. A mapping section reports the number of drink driving fatal and serious collisions by District Council and there is also a section on the 2016/17 Continuous Household Survey which examines respondent’s attitudes to drink driving. Finally, the report examines a breakdown of the number of Preliminary Breath Tests and Evidential Breath Tests carried out by the PSNI and the number of drink drivers who were referred for prosecution.