RECENT EVIDENCE FROM SCANDINAVIA ON DETERRING ALCOHOL IMPAIRED DRIVING

This paper summarizes the results of a number of studies of the effectiveness of control of drunken driving in Norway and Sweden. Econometric techniques are used for these evaluations within a simultaneous systems framework that takes account of variations in law enforcement effort, levels of alcohol consumption, and environmental effects that include indices of distance driven, vehicle mix and/or traffic density, and road quality. Effectiveness is measured in terms of the impact on fatal and serious injury accidents. Both cross-section and time series analyses have been conducted for periods in which legal statutes have remained relatively unchanged. Across all of the data sets involved there is a substantial unanimity supporting the hypothesis that increases in alcohol consumption levels are associated with higher accident levels and increases in law enforcement effort leading to a greater probability of sanctions will result in lower levels of fatal and serious injury accidents than would otherwise prevail. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • VOTEY, H L
• Publication Date: 1984-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 123-138
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcoholic beverages; Countermeasures; Crash rates; Crashes; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Economic efficiency; Environmental impacts; Fatalities; Impact studies; Impaired drivers; Injuries; Injury severity; Intoxication; Law enforcement; Measures of effectiveness; Traffic crashes; Traffic density; Trip length; Vehicle mix
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness; Efficiency; Increase
• Geographic Terms: Norway; Sweden
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1612: Accident rate; 1772: Driver; 2231: Drunkenness; 5911: Efficiency; 1534: Enforcement (law); 1602: Fatality; 9032: Increase; 2163: Injury; 8084: Norway; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 8109: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389197
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 337
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 1985 12:00AM