Volume III: Findings Report National Survey of Drinking and Driving Attitudes and Behavior: 2001

Royal, Dawn

doi:10.1037/e730942011-001

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“…NHTSA surveys (Royal, 2003) reveal that increased enforcement ranks higher as a strategy than measures to reduce the availability of alcohol or to raise taxes on alcoholic beverages, and about 70% think penalties for drinking and driving should be raised. However, there is reasonable public support for a wide range of policies, as exemplified by a national opinion survey of adults, which found that there was at least 50% support for 29 of 33 diverse policies, including some that involved increased alcohol taxes (Harwood et al, 2002).…”

Section: Public Health Approachmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Hardcore Drinking Drivers and Other Contributors to the Alcohol-Impaired Driving Problem: Need For a Comprehensive Approach

Williams

McCartt

Ferguson

2007

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Reductions in the alcohol-impaired driving problem require that attention be focused on all relevant target groups. Some benefits could accrue by recognizing that countermeasures developed for hardcore drinking drivers, such as alcohol ignition interlocks and vehicle or plate impoundment, might also be effective with more numerous first-time offenders. However, such strategies are likely to be most effective against recidivism (specific deterrence). Greater gains could be achieved through general deterrent efforts (increasing the real and perceived risk of arrest and punishment to all drinking drivers), along with application of public health measures designed to reduce overall consumption. Additional ways need to be found to separate drinking and driving, either through cultural changes in drinking and/or driving behavior or, in the future, with the use of technology that can make vehicles inoperable by drivers with illegal blood alcohol concentrations.

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Section: Public Health Approachmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Presumably, they have done so frequently without getting caught because the odds of apprehension on any one high-BAC trip are very low. There are an estimated 90 million impaired driving trips per year but only about 1.5 million DUI arrests (Royal, 2003;U.S. Department of Justice, 2005).…”

Section: Prior Alcohol Offensesmentioning

confidence: 98%