ALCOHOL-RELATED DRIVING BEHAVIOR OF WHITE AND NON-WHITE NORTH CAROLINA DRIVERS

There is a limited amount of research on drinking behavior of non-whites and almost none on the subject of drinking and driving. Most of the studies have been based on hospital admissions for alcoholism. The U.S. Fatal Accident Reporting System does not consider race of drivers. This study by the Highway Safety Research Center examines the involvement of North Carolina (NC) non-white drivers for the period of 1980 through 1988 and reports on trends in driver licensing, arrests for drinking and driving, SV nighttime and A/R crashes and measured blood alcohol levels in fatalities. It identifies an emerging driving-while-impaired (DWI) problem for non-white, particularly non-white males above the age of twenty. For ages twenty five and higher, rates of non-white males are at least twice those of white males. Similar trends exist in A/R crash involvement rates. Significant trends pertaining to the involvement of non-whites will have implications for the design and implementation of educational, deterrence, enforcement and rehabilitation programmes. (A) For the covering abstract, see IRRD 866577.

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  Verlag TUeV Rheinland

  Institut fuer Unfallforshung-Bericht
  Cologne,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • POPKIN, C L
  • Council, F M
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety-T92, Proceedings of the 12th Conference.
  • Location: Cologne, Germany
  • Date: 1992-9-28 to 1992-10-2
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1471-5
• Monograph Title: ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY-T92. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohols; Behavior; Blood alcohol levels; Conferences; Crash rates; Driver rehabilitation; Drivers; Intoxication; Law enforcement; Organizations; Penalties; Prevention; Safety; Statistical significance; Statistical trends
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 1612: Accident rate; 7347: Alcohol; 9001: Behaviour; 1553: Blood alcohol content; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 2292: Driver rehabilitation; 2231: Drunkenness; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9057: Organization (association); 1502: Penalty; 1665: Safety; 6532: Significance (stat); 6515: Trend (stat)
• Subject Areas: Law; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00729782
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 3824901315
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 26 1996 12:00AM