Alcohol and Highway Safety 2006: A Review of the State of Knowledge

This sixth volume in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s series of reviews on the state of knowledge in alcohol and highway safety covers research reported after the 2001 publication up to 2006. Specifically, it includes articles published between 2000 and 2006, as well as additional reports published in early 2007. As has been the practice in previous issues of this report, articles from earlier periods are included to provide sufficient background for more recent findings. Thus, this volume is a compilation of information from a 5-year span of alcohol and highway safety reports and research findings. This volume is organized under the standard six headings used in previous reviews: Introduction and Methods; Overview of the Alcohol-Crash Problem; Alcohol Effects on People; Drinking Drivers, Pedestrians, and Pedalcyclists; Dealing with the Alcohol-Crash Problem; and Summary and Conclusions. The review suggests that although public attention to impaired driving has declined since its peak in the 1980s and 1990s, government support for traffic safety research and safety demonstration programs has continued to increase. However, this support is not commensurate with the magnitude of the problem. There is considerable room for revising and strengthening current State and community efforts to reduce impaired driving. Progress in understanding the drinking-and-driving problem, combined with development of new technologies, is offering opportunities to resume the decline of alcohol-related crashes nationwide, which stagnated in 1995.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811374.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

  11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900
  Calverton, MD  United States  20705-3102

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  Office of Behavioral Safety Research, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Voas, Robert B
  • Lacey, John C
• Publication Date: 2011-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Draft Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 368p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol effects; Alcohol use; Cyclists; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Highway safety; Intoxication; Literature reviews; Pedestrians; Research; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01358995
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-811 374
• Contract Numbers: DTNH22-02-D-95121
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 16 2011 2:47PM