Road Safety When Drivers Use Alcohol and Marijuana: Confounded Poisson Distribution Helps to Understand
- 1 Texas State University, United States
- 2 University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
- 3 UT Health Northeast, United States
Abstract
Self-admitted users of alcohol and/or marijuana while driving haunt road safety regulating agencies in general and community groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in particular. Motivated by such data in a survey, by 6,612 drivers above 18 years old in USA during years 2013-2015, we thought of interpreting how the road safety is in the scenarios. Needless to emphasize the importance of any breach of road safety to nursing professionals working in emergency unit of a hospital as the victims of road accidents arrive there to get a preemptive service with urgency. To be educated on the issues, this article develops and uses an appropriate probability model, which is named Confounded Poisson Distribution (CPD). Statistical properties of CPD are derived and applied to analyze the data and to demystify the patterns in road safety among impaired drivers in the age brackets 18 through 75+ years.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ijrnsp.2017.3.9
Copyright: © 2017 Ramalingam Shanmugam, Ram Tripathi and Karan Singh. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Confounded Poisson Distribution
- Road Safety
- Psychologic Temptation