Study shows link between alcohol and accidental deaths
21/03/2006 - 07:52:36A two-year study conducted in Cavan, Monaghan and Louth has reportedly found that alcohol is a major factor in many suicides and accidental deaths.
Reports this morning said the study found that two fifths of people killed in road accidents in the three counties in 2001 and 2002 had consumed alcohol.
Elsewhere, 100% of adults killed in house fires had been drinking beforehand, while 55.5% of suicide victims had alcohol in their bloodstreams.
The research, due to be published in the next issue of the Irish Medical Journal, was based on blood samples taken from 105 people who died in accidents and suicides.
