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Interesting to hear. I've heard the opposite in that in dry counties in the US the incidence of alcohol related driving accidents is 3x that of wet counties. A
by vichu 7y ago
Interesting to hear. I've heard the opposite in that in dry counties in the US the incidence of alcohol related driving accidents is 3x that of wet counties. A quick look at the Wikipedia[0] article corroborates this.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purchase_alcohol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purcha...
- StudentStuff 7y agoA lack of healthy drinking culture and social norms leads to extreme, dangerous behavior. The same can be said for other ills of our society.
- loeg 7y agoI think it's more: if you have to drive farther to drink or buy alcohol and people drunk drive at the same background rate, you simply get more drunk miles driven and proportionately higher incident rates.
- barry-cotter 7y agoThe causality could go Dry County -> Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) Or it could be Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) -> Dry County You’d need to do historical research to see if the bad relationship preceded the alcohol ban. A first pass would be historical murder rates seeing as drunkenness leads to violence, which leads to deaths.
- sfRattan 7y agoOr it could go: Dry county -> social drinkers must drive to the bar in the next county over, or even several counties over -> drunk drivers from the dry county spend more time and distance on roads than they would otherwise -> higher instance of drunk driving related accidents in the dry county.