NEUROTROPIC DRUGS AND DRIVING PART 1

SUBSTANCES NEUROTROPES ET CONDUITE AUTOMOBILE

This theme is in three parts: (a) influences of alcohol on the behaviour of the driver, (b) effects of carbon monoxide on driving, and (c) influence of tranquillizers on the behaviour of the driver. Part a contains the following papers: the effect of alcohol on driving in canada Peart,AFW; investigations of 500 road fatalities with special reference to blood alcohol levels, Hossack,DW; delayed effects of acute alcoholic intoxication on occupational safety and health, Tichauer,ER, Wolkenberg,RC and Rho,YM; blood alcohol content and road traffic, Simonetti,N and Accetura,V; alcohol rates in public transport drivers in road traffic as an accidentogenic factor Cekic,J, Todorovic,P and Radmilovic,V; drivers' opinions and behaviour concerning alcohol, problem drinking and highway safety, Waller,JA and Worden,JK; the effect of alcohol on motor vehicle accidents resulting in fatality, Kier,LC; relation between driver behaviour and blood alcohol content; 1000 medico/legal analyses, Planques,J, Arhus,L and Scheckmann,J; drinking alcoholic beverages and blood alcohol content, Lereboullet,J. The use of breath-alcohol analysis in traffic law enforcement - medical - legal and administrative considerations, Borkenstein, R; some interferences of breath - alcohol level on steadiness, tapping and depth perception tests, Niyogi,SK; breath alcohol analysis with the intomimeter gas chromatograph, jones,aw and jones,tp; automated blood alcohol analysis for forensic purposes, gilmore,ae; hand-writing as an indication of alcohol consumption in drunk driving cases, doud,d. For the covering abstract of the conference see irrd abstract no. 100820. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Institut National de Medecine du Traffic

  15 rue de l'Ecole de Medecine
  Paris,   France 
• Publication Date: 1972-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 91-127
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Institut National de Medecine du Trafic
  • Publisher: Institut National de Medecine du Traffic

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol breath tests; Alcohols; Attitudes; Behavior; Blood alcohol levels; Buses; Carbon monoxide; Crashes; Diseases and medical conditions; Drivers; Drugs; Drunk driving; Equipment; Fatalities; Intoxication; Legal factors; Legislation; Occupational safety; Perception; Tranquilizers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Enforcement
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 7347: Alcohol; 1542: Alcohol test; 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9001: Behaviour; 1553: Blood alcohol content; 8018: Canada; 7391: Carbon monoxide; 1772: Driver; 2242: Drugs; 2231: Drunkenness; 1534: Enforcement (law); 1602: Fatality; 1556: Legislation; 2154: Medical aspects; 2229: Perception
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00125046
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 18 1975 12:00AM