Drunk‐driving Intervention in an Urban Community: an exploratory analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether age, sex, and marital status differences exist in preventing the occurrence of impaired driving among urban residents. Among other findings, the overwhelming proportion of the respondents were willing to intervene and prevent the occurrence of impaired driving. The research offers evidence that offering to drive the intoxicated person home or calling a taxi were the most frequently employed intervention techniques by the respondents. More females than males took keys away to prevent the occurrence of drunk-driving. Suggestions for future research are couched.

Psychological Reactions to the Drunk Driver: Associations With Intervention and Their Success1

“…. These interventions occur frequently in everyday life (Adebayo, 1988;Albaum 1985;Collins & Frey, 1992;Rabow, Hernandez, & Watts, 1986; and are influenced by different personal and situational variables (Monto, Newcomb, Rabow, & Hernandez, 1992;Newcomb, Rabow, Hernandez, & Monto, 1997;Newcomb et al, 1991). Informal drunk driving interventions also involve the cognitive processes of decision making found in experimental models of helping behavior (Rabow, Newcomb, Monto, & Hernandez, 1990;Wolfinger, Rabow, & Newcomb, 1994).…”