Patients' Risk of Causing Traffic Violations and Traffic Accidents while Driving.

Objectives: This study examines whether drivers suffering from epilepsy, chronic alcoholism and/or hazardous drinking, psychoactive substance abuse, other diseases of the nervous system, mental and behavioural disorders, cardiovascular diseases, severe diabetes, and severe eye diseases are at a greater risk of causing traffic accidents and traffic violations than drivers that cause accidents and violations without these diagnoses.

Methods: A case control study was carried out. The cases were drivers checked by a special medical committee in the period observed suffering from the diseases listed above.