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Extended alcohol trading hours during the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games and traffic accidents
Author(s) -
Smith D. Ian
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0819-5331
DOI - 10.1080/09595238880000661
Subject(s) - commonwealth , enforcement , advertising , transport engineering , business , geography , engineering , political science , law
During the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games 39% of the hotels, clubs, restaurants, cabarets and bistros in the Brisbane Statistical Division were granted extended trading hours. Analyses using confidence intervals and chi‐square analyses for both the daytime and night‐time revealed that the increase in availability did not result in additional casualty or property damage accidents. An intensive traffic law enforcement campaign during the Games may have offset the predicted increase in traffic accidents due to the additional availability of alcoholic beverages.