DETERRING THE DRINKING DRIVER: THE STOCKTON EXPRIENCE

The effectiveness of drunk driving enforcement patrols is generally assumed. However, few adequate evaluations are available in the traffic safety literature. The U.S. Department of Transportation funded a special program in Stockton, a city with a population 120,000 in the central valley of California, to test the effectiveness of special drunk driving patrols on weekend evenings, applied within a setting in which no other major alcohol safety programs were present. The objective of this effort was to determine the effectiveness of a "traditional" approach to enforcing driving while impaired (DWI) laws; one in which innnovative procedures such as sobriety checkpoints were not used. The results indicated that nighttime collisions in Stockton were reduced during the three and a half year period of the special enforcement program.

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• Authors:
  • Voas, R B
  • Hause, J M
• Publication Date: 1987-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 81-90
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Impaired drivers; Measures of effectiveness; Night; Safety; Safety programs; Traffic safety; Weekends
• Uncontrolled Terms: Deterrence; Effectiveness; Patrol
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00475157
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 169
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1990 12:00AM