ONE YEAR LATER: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CALIFORNIA'S NEW DRINKING AND DRIVING LAWS

In January 1982, California's new more stringent driving-under-the-influence (DUI) laws went into effect. There is some preliminary evidence that these laws resulted in a decline in the incidence of alcohol involved driving. This paper provides some perspective on California's accident statistics and suggests that further analyses be conducted so that a better explanation can be developed for the inability of the DUI laws to affect more substantively the alcohol and driving problems in California.

• Corporate Authors:

  UCLA Alcohol Research Center

  Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90024
• Authors:
  • BLOCH, S A
• Publication Date: 1983-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 9-20
• Serial:
  • Abstracts & Reviews in Alcohol & Driving
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: UCLA Alcohol Research Center

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Law enforcement; Laws; Legislation; Measures of effectiveness; Safety; Statistics; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00386753
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 231
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM