Traffic Risk Behaviours at Nightlife: Relations between Drinking, Drugs use and Driving and use of T

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Traffic Risk Behaviours at Nightlife Relations
between Drinking, Drugs use and Driving and use
of Transport in Young People

• Nicole Blay,
• Seminario Irefrea, Coimbra, 2007

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Hypothesis
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Objetives

• Description of transport habits of young people
  during nightlife reasons adduced for transport
  preferences
• Description of risky traffic behaviours at three
  levels
• a) Taking a lift from someone drunk and/or
  drugged
• b) Driving themselves drunk
• c) Driving themselves drugged
• Analysis of the relationship between transport
  form and traffic risk behaviours (a, b and c).
• Analysis of the relationship between alcohol and
  drug consumption and the described risk
  behaviours
• Analysis between drunkenness and drug consumption
  and traffic crashes
• Analysis of the geographical differences for use
  of transport and risk behaviours in nightlife.

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Analyzed variables

• Transport
• Use of transport when going out at night
• Use of transport when coming back at night
• Reasons for rejecting use of public transport
• Traffic risk behaviours
• Taking a lift from someone drunk/drugged
• Driving drunk
• Driving drugged
• Alcohol and drug use
• Times drunk last month
• Alcohol use
• Cannabis use
• Cocaine use
• Traffic accidents

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Table 1 Total Frequencies of transport of going
out at night and coming back
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Table 2 Traffic Risk behaviours by gender
R1 taking a lift from someone drunk or
drugged R2 driving being drunk R3 driving
drugged
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Figure 1 Traffic risk behaviours by use of
private/public transport
Note category 0 has an inverse value, as it
shows times people NEVER assumed that risk.
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Figure 2 Traffic accidents by drunkenness and
drug intake (past 30 days)
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Figure 3 Drunkenness, alcohol, cannabis and
cocaine consumption by Gender
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Figure 4 Traffic risk behaviours by times drunk,
cannabis and cocaine intake
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Figure 4 Traffic risk behaviours X times drunk,
cannabis and cocaine intake (II)
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Geographical differences
Table 3 Frequencies of transport form and
traffic risk behaviours X North / South

North Countries Austria, Chez Republic, Germany,
UK South Countries Greece, Italy, Portugal,
Slovenia, Spain ? percentage of positive cases
(one or more times in the last month) Significance
s set of chi-square statistics (lt.05lt.01)
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Figure 5 Reasons for rejecting use of public
transport by age, gender and North/ South
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Figure 5 Reasons for rejecting use of public
transport by age, gender and North/ South
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