BREATHALYSED DRIVERS - TO COURT OR CLINIC?

Drinking drivers who are apprehended and breathalysed by the police have, as a group, traffic conviction records which differ considerably from those of the driving population at large. Serious offences such as dangerous driving, failing to stop after an accident, driving while disqualified, are ten times as frequent among breathalysed drivers as among those in the general population.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the World Federation for Mental Health Congress, Sydney, Australia, Oct. 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • RAYMOND, A
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Blood alcohol levels; Bridge superstructures; Driver records; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Traffic conviction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099168
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: ARR #18
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 5 1975 12:00AM