Boozing and Driving a 'Boon' or 'Bane.

Alcohol-impaired driving continues to be one of the nation's most serious public health problems. The NCRB report states that drunken driving is a major factor for road accidents. There is progressive loss of driving ability as blood alcohol concentration increases due to increase in reaction time, false confidence, impaired concentration and decreased visual and auditory acuity. This study does a systematic analysis of factors like population profile, time of incident, place of occurrence, cause of death, blood alcohol concentration involved etc., enabling an assessment of different aspects of alcohol related road traffic fatalities. This study evaluates the frequency of drunken drivers with fatalities.The study was conducted on victims of fatal road traffic accidents in Mahboobnagar District Mortuary. Details were noted using an intake proforma including all the factors. Samples of blood were collected and subjected to Gas Chromatography. All the subjects in this study died due to the reason that under the influence of alcohol there is a decrease in driving ability and reaction time which leads to more sloppy driver behavior and accidents. Thereby concluding that to prevent drunken driving fatalities we need not formulate new suggestions and rules, but rather follow the existing ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]