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In Wisconsin, boating accidents reported to the Coast Guard that concerned medication or alcohol had been practically 25% extra prone to lead to harm than accidents not involving medication or alcohol.
Leisure boaters throughout the USA are required to report boating accidents that lead to demise, severe harm, disappearance or important injury. The Knowledge Liberation Venture filed a public request for this knowledge and printed it as a database for out of doors use. The ensuing knowledge ranges from 2009 to 2023.
In Wisconsin, there have been 1,574 distinctive boating accidents over the 15-year interval — about 100 per yr. Of those accidents, about 88.7% didn’t have alcohol or medication reported as a trigger. 11.3% concerned one or each of those causes.
On common, accidents that concerned alcohol or medication would lead to not less than one demise or severe harm. Half of the accidents reported to the coast guard resulted in demise when alcohol or medication had been concerned. That is greater than 30% extra typically than incidents the place no medication or alcohol had been concerned.
General, when medication and alcohol weren’t concerned, about three in 4 accidents resulted in a demise or severe harm.
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