Modifying Drink Driving Behaviour: An Overview

Bungey, J.B.; Frauenfelder, J.L.

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1986.tb00817.x

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“…In the past, public education has been employed largely to raise awareness of alcohol and highway safety issues and to promote moral persuasion, while most direct interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving have focused on external regulation through legislation and enforcement. [1][2][3][4][5] Server interventions show potential for prevention although they have not been evaluated with driving populations. 6' In this study, we have evaluated a community education program which was designed to provide the individual drinker with a cognitive method of self-regulating his or her blood-alcohol level through the use of "drink calculators" which were distributed and demonstrated at licensed alcoholic beverage outlets.…”

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Preventing alcohol-impaired driving through community self-regulation training.

Worden

Flynn²,

Merrill³

et al. 1989

Am J Public Health

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A community education program was designed to train the individual drinker to self-regulate his or her blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) below a level of impairment (.05 g/dl or 11 mmol/L). Drink calculators (cardboard wheels and wallet cards)were disseminated to customers of bars and licensed beverage outlets; bartenders and counter clerks were trained to demonstrate use of the calculators and demonstrations were presented in television spots. Program components were evaluated in three matched Vermont communities, one receiving the full community education program, one receiving the TV spots only, and one serving as control. After six months of intervention, a roadside survey of

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Preventing alcohol-impaired driving through community self-regulation training.

Worden

Flynn²,

Merrill³

et al. 1989

Am J Public Health

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Drink‐driving and Adolescent Lifestyles: Re‐Thinking Policy

Papadakis¹,

Moore²

1991

Aust J Social Issues

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The difficulty of evaluating the effectiveness of programmes to tackle road safety is well‐known. Understandably most funds are spent on programmes (like manipulation of the physical environment and law enforcement) which are directed towards all road users rather than targeted at specific groups.In this paper we are concerned with the need to develop strategies for tackling the problem of drink‐driving among a highly vulnerable group, namely young people. After examining the problem of drink‐driving amongadolescents, we review some ofthe explanations for this phenomenon and consider their strengths and weaknesses. We take issue with the argument that only crude measures involving reductions in exposure to risk have any hope ofsuccess with young drivers. Our central argument is based on two distinct areas of research. The first has specifically identified adolescents asa vulnerable group. Thesecond hasdemonstrated the distinctive character of adolescent lifestyles. The paper attempts to demonstrate that drink‐driving forms an integral part of the lifestyles of many adolescents. Educational and ‘lifestyle’ interventions should therefore focus specifically on adolescents and consider the diversity of lifestyles and social groups within this broad demographic category. We also draw attention to economic interests, social pressures and the politics ofroad safety legislation that imply constraints on policy change.

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Drink Driving: Offenders and Penalties in Metropolitan Hobart

Wood

1987

Australian Geographical Studies

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Conviction rates for drink driving charges vary markedly between suburbs in metropolitan Hobart. Particularly high rates occur in public housing and inner city areas. Low rates typify the more affluent suburbs. The pattern may reflect a complex interplay between police implementation of random breath testing, constraints imposed by the physical structure of the city, and varying attitudes towards the law. Court penalties imposed on drink drivers also vary markedly between suburbs. Recidivism probably provides much of an explanation; the role of other factors cannot yet be assessed.

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Modifying Drink Driving Behaviour: An Overview

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Preventing alcohol-impaired driving through community self-regulation training.

Preventing alcohol-impaired driving through community self-regulation training.

Drink‐driving and Adolescent Lifestyles: Re‐Thinking Policy

Drink Driving: Offenders and Penalties in Metropolitan Hobart

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