DWI ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS: WHY ARE THEY NOT MORE EFFECTIVE?

Mass arrests for DWI have not been effective in preventing alophol-rated deaths. The frequency of impaired driving episodes is believed to be of such magnitude and the relative likelihood of involvement in an alcohol-related fatal crash is so low that current DWI enforcement programs are regarded as inefficient means to prevent alcohol-related deaths. Recommendations to define the problem more clearly are presented. A review of the literature reveals that the proportion of all fatal crashes involving alcohol in some causal fashion is closer to 30% than to 50%, that relatively few alcoholics are high-risk drivers and that it is not alcohol alone that leads to crash involvement but alcohol in combination with such characteristics or conditions as alienation, hostility, aggression, and/or transient traumatic experiences.

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  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • ZYLMAN, R
• Publication Date: 1975-9

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 179-190
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohols; Behavior; Countermeasures; Crash rates; Drivers; Drunk driving; Electrical properties; Fatalities; Properties of the atmosphere
• Old TRIS Terms: Atmospheric electricity; Driver psychology
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00125515
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 16 1975 12:00AM