Pedestrian Accident and Alcohol Involvement Study in New Orleans, 1972-1976

New Orleans field accident data from 1975-76, with comparisons to 1972-76 fatal cases, examines alcohol's role in pedestrian fatalities and injuries. The study includes 86 fatal accident cases, 180 non-fatal injury cases, and 1208 control observations from accident and random sites. It was authored by Richard D. Blomberg to analyze accident types, behavioral errors, and pedestrian drinking patterns.

Use Cases

• Calculate relative risk of alcohol involvement in pedestrian accidents based on the described case-control groups.
• Identify distinguishing accident types or behavioral errors in alcohol-involved cases as mentioned in the study objectives.
• Study pedestrian alcohol use patterns and drinker classifications using the collected field data.
• Compare characteristics of fatal and non-fatal pedestrian accident groups established in the study.

Strengths

• Includes a control group of 1208 non-accident involved pedestrians for comparative analysis.
• Study design explicitly covers both fatal (86 cases) and non-fatal injury (180 cases) pedestrian accidents.
• Data collection was based on field accident studies with specific temporal and spatial sampling criteria.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the full dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a specific city (New Orleans) and time period (1972-1976), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Richard D. Blomberg

Collection Method

Field accident study with data collection on accident cases and establishment of control groups via accident and random site sampling.

Time Range

1972-1976 (fatal cases), 1975-1976 (injury cases and control sampling)

Geography

City of New Orleans, USA