The correlation between alcohol consumption and the car accident. Forensic aspects

• Author: Gabriel Mihalache - Camelia Buhas
• Position: PhD lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Oradea - PhD, head of papers, Faculty of Medicine, Oradea
• Pages: 180-181

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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

AND THE CAR ACCIDENT. FORENSIC ASPECTS

PhD lecturer Gabriel Mihalache

Faculty of Medicine, Oradea

PhD Camelia Buhas – head of papers

Faculty of Medicine, Oradea

Abstract:

Forensic medicine has the privilege to pursue not only the medical

consequences of a car accident – the victims’ traumas – but alcohol blood level of

the drivers, passengers and pedestrians.

The study refers, on one hand, to the drivers, their injuries and the level of

their blood alcohol at the moment of the accident. \on the other hand, it speaks

about the other victims involved in a car accident in accordance with their alcohol

blood values.

The conclusions are dramatic and bring down the attention upon the fact

that, on most cases, whether the driver was under the influence of alcohol at the

time when the accident happened, or the pedestrian, but not only on one

circumstance was found out that all the persons involved in the accident were

under the influence of alcohol.

Another conclusion points out the fact that the drivers’ alcohol tests results

have the tendency to increase year by year.

Key words: accident, influence of alcohol, victim

Is it true that car accidents can be directly connected with the alcohol

consumption of the driver or of the victim, the pedestrian? We are trying to answer

this question by analyzing 2 aspects:

- how many drivers were caught under the influence of alcohol at the time

when they were involved in a road event (accident, with or without any victims,

routine check, etc) and

- if the pedestrians or the persons seated in a car were under the

influence of alcohol when the accident happened?

The forensic doctors, because of the toxicological laboratories in the

forensic institutions, can easily supervise these 2 aspects. Here, the alcohol test

results, certificates and victims’ examinations are analyzed and elaborated.

In our study we were interested in the following items:

- the gender and the age of the drivers and victims from the car accident

- the alcohol blood value established by the toxicological analyze

- the gravity of the lesions transcribed into days of medical care

- the consequences of the accident (death, invalidity, infirmity, etc)