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Effect on Traffic Accidents of Introducing Flexible Hotel Trading Hours in Tasmania, Australia
Author(s) -
SMITH D. I.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb03984.x
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , midnight , confidence interval , duration (music) , demography , statistics , mathematics , business , finance , physics , sociology , astronomy , acoustics
Summary Following the introduction of flexible hotel trading hours in Tasmania, hotels stayed open for approximately the same duration, but closed later than the previous 10.00 p.m. closing time. In the year after the legislative change there were 382 casualty accidents from 10.01 p.m. to 6.00 a.m., whereas the 95% confidence interval calculated on the basis of the previous five years was 309.3 to 356.3. By contrast, for the control time of 6.01 p.m. to 10.00 p.m. the 362 casualty accidents during the after period was within the 95% confidence interval of 331.1 to 365.3. With the later closing the accidents were significantly more likely to occur after midnight than before midnight.