REVIEWS OF EVIDENCE REGARDING INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING

Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes are a major public health problem, resulting in 15,786 deaths and more than 300,000 injuries in 1999. This report presents the results of systematic reviews of the effectiveness and economic efficiency of selected population-based interventions to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. The Guide to Community Preventive Service's methods for systematic reviews were used to evaluate the effectiveness of five interventions to decrease alcohol-impaired driving, using changes in alcohol-related crashes as the primary outcome measure. Strong evidence was found for the effectiveness of .08 blood alcohol concentration laws, minimum legal drinking age laws, and sobriety checkpoints. Sufficient evidence was found for the effectiveness of lower blood alcohol concentration laws for young and inexperienced drivers and of intervention training programs for servers of alcoholic beverages. Additional information is provided about the applicability, other effects, and barriers to implementation of these interventions.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
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• Authors:
  • Shults, R A
  • ELDER, R W
  • Sleet, D A
  • Nichols, J L
  • Alao, M O
  • Carande-Kulis, V G
  • Zaza, S
  • Sosin, D M
  • Thompson, R S
• Publication Date: 2001-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 66-88
• Serial:
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 4S
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0749-3797
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07493797

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcoholic beverages; Blood alcohol levels; Drinking establishments; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Impaired drivers; Injuries; Laws; Legal drinking age; Literature reviews; Measures of effectiveness; Novices; Per se laws; Recently qualified drivers; Sobriety checkpoints; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Training
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interventions
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921793
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Supplement
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 10 2002 12:00AM