Modeling the Injury Prevention Impact of Mandatory Alcohol Ignition Interlock Installation in All New US Vehicles

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ID11025201
AuthorsPatrick M Carter (0000-0001-7605-2980, Patrick M. Carter and Rebecca M. Cunningham are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonathan D. Rupp, Carol A. C. Flannagan, and C. Raymond Bingham are with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor.), Carol A C Flannagan (Patrick M. Carter and Rebecca M. Cunningham are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonathan D. Rupp, Carol A. C. Flannagan, and C. Raymond Bingham are with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor.), Carol Flannagan (0000-0001-8484-4187, University of Michigan), C Raymond Bingham (Patrick M. Carter and Rebecca M. Cunningham are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonathan D. Rupp, Carol A. C. Flannagan, and C. Raymond Bingham are with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor.), Rebecca M Cunningham (0000-0002-6382-2365, Patrick M. Carter and Rebecca M. Cunningham are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonathan D. Rupp, Carol A. C. Flannagan, and C. Raymond Bingham are with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor.), Jonathan D Rupp (0000-0001-9402-0640, Patrick M. Carter and Rebecca M. Cunningham are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jonathan D. Rupp, Carol A. C. Flannagan, and C. Raymond Bingham are with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor.)
Year2015
Volume105
Issue5
Pages1028-1035
Publication date2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2014.302445
PMID25790385
PMCIDPMC4386530
OpenAlexW1981946755
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

Objectives. We estimated the injury prevention impact and cost savings associated with alcohol interlock installation in all new US vehicles. Methods. We identified fatal and nonfatal injuries associated with drinking driver vehicle crashes from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and National Automotive Sampling System’s General Estimates System data sets (2006–2010). We derived the estimated impact of universal interlock installation using an estimate of the proportion of alcohol-related crashes that were preventable in vehicles Results. Over 15 years, 85% of crash fatalities (> 59 000) and 84% to 88% of nonfatal injuries (> 1.25 million) attributed to drinking drivers would be prevented, saving an estimated $342 billion in injury-related costs, with the greatest injury and cost benefit realized among recently legal drinking drivers. Cost savings outweighed installation costs after 3 years, with the policy remaining cost effective provided device effectiveness remained above approximately 25%. Conclusions. Alcohol interlock installation in all new vehicles is likely a cost-effective primary prevention policy that will substantially reduce alcohol-involved crash fatalities and injuries, especially among young vulnerable drivers

Business · Cost–benefit analysis · Crash · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Interlock · Occupational safety and health · Operations management · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics · Computer Science · Engineering · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention · Medicine · Traffic and Road Safety

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