{"id":2238,"date":"2019-08-30T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-affected-a-quarter-of-those-who-died-at-the-wheel-in-queensland\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:26:16","slug":"alcohol-affected-a-quarter-of-those-who-died-at-the-wheel-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-affected-a-quarter-of-those-who-died-at-the-wheel-in-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol affected a quarter of those who died at the wheel in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol is still a factor in about a quarter of traffic deaths in Queensland, research has found. QUT\u2019s Centre of Accident Research and Road Safety &#8211; Queensland (CARRS-Q) analysed the database of Queensland road crashes from 1981 to 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They found about 25 per cent of drivers and riders killed on the state\u2019s roads in the last five years of that period were over the 0.05 legal blood alcohol limit.<\/p>\n<p>But Professor Barry Watson said the research showed road safety had come a long way in 40 years. \u201cIn the early 1980s, drink driving really was an epidemic in the community, and about 50 per cent of the drivers and riders who were killed had a BAC above 0.05,\u201d Professor Watson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, over those 40 years we\u2019ve been able to effectively halve the problem, but on the other side of things the fact that it\u2019s still around 25 per cent of fatalities is a concern.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/queensland\/alcohol-affected-a-quarter-of-those-who-died-at-the-wheel-in-queensland-20190828-p52lpv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For complete article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2019&nbsp; Alcohol is still a factor in about a quarter of traffic deaths in Queensland, research has found. QUT\u2019s Centre of Accident Research and Road Safety &#8211; Queensland (CARRS-Q) analysed the database of Queensland road crashes from 1981 to 2017.&nbsp; They found about 25 per cent of drivers and riders killed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-against-drink-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}