Drinking, texting, ageing, or youth: which attribute is the riskiest for driving?

Toru Fujiwara and Kazutaka Takechi

Applied Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 30, issue 2, 239-243

Abstract: Assessing the risk factors causing car accidents is a crucial first step in adopting appropriate public policies to achieve road safety. We measure the risk of four distinctive driver attributes, drinking, texting, ageing, and youth, using the Levitt and Porter, 2001 framework. We find that while drink-driving is the riskiest of the four attributes (2.9 times more dangerous than sober driving), drivers aged 70 years or older are similarly risky (2.75 times more dangerous than younger drivers). These results suggest that appropriate public policies, such as a strict driver’s licence system, stringent fines on drink-driving, regulations such as average speed limits, and subsidies for advanced safety vehicles, may reduce car crashes.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1983128

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