ALCOHOL AND HIGHWAY SAFETY: BEHAVIORAL AND MEDICAL ASPECTS

DRIVERS INVOLVED IN FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY HIGHWAY CRASHES WERE COMPARED WITH DRIVERS: USING THE SAME ROADS AT SIMILAR TIMES, BUT WITHOUT CRASH INVOLVEMENT; WITH RECENT DRUNKEN DRIVING ARRESTS; WITH ARRESTS FOR OTHER SERIOUS TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS; AND WITH NO CRASHES OR CITATIONS IN PRIOR 5 YEARS. VARIABLES STUDIED PATTERNS, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS. A DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS CORRECTLY CLASSIFIED 95% OF CLEAR-RECORD DRIVERS AND 87% OF DRUNKEN DRIVERS USING FOUR SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES: LIFETIME CITATIONS, OCCUPATIONAL LEVEL, BEER FREQUENCY, AND LIQUOR QUANTITY. THREE TYPES OF INDUCED-INTOXICATION EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO STUDY INFLUENCES OF ALCOHOL UPON DRIVING-RELATED BEHAVIOR: SMALL-GROUP STUDIES, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, AND A CLOSE-COURSE PILOT STUDY USING AN INSTRUMENTED CAR. /NTIS/

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1062
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Vermont, Burlington

  169 Home Avenue
  Burlington, VT  United States  05401
• Authors:
  • Perrine, M W
  • Waller, J A
  • Harris, L S
• Publication Date: 1971-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 31 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injury research; Crashes; Driver performance; Drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Injuries; Personnel performance; Research; Social factors; Testing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221976
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Sum Rept
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 15 1973 12:00AM