SOME EXPERIENCES FROM ROADSIDE STUDIES (THE LYCKSELE INVESTIGATIONS)

NAAGRA ERFARENHETER FRAAN ROAD SIDE STUDIER (LYCKSELEUNDERSOEKNINGARNA)

Roadside studies have been introduced as a concept in road accident investigations, partly in connection with the introduction of breath tests and partly in connection with road accident investigations where a comparison is made between an accident group and a control group without accidents. Risk investigations are principally two parallel investigations where the blood alcohol content is determined of drivers who have not been involved in road accidents and who are participants in the normal traffic without any suspicions of influence of alcohol. The material is collected with the help of systematic investigations in a defined, geographically limited area, in this case Lycksele (population 10000) in the northern part of Sweden. During the same period and on the same roads, another investigation was made of drivers involved in road accidents. These two groups of drivers are compared and analyzed and a risk factor is calculated. The report also presents the results from four other similar investigations made in USA and Czechoslovakia. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Nordiska Naemndenfoer Alkoholforskning

  Institutionen foer Experimentell Alkohol-och Norkotikafor
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • VALVERIUS, M
• Publication Date: 1978

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 45-53

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol breath tests; Blood alcohol levels; Control groups; Crash exposure; Crash investigation; Data collection; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Hazards; Risk assessment; Sampling; Surveys
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1542: Alcohol test; 1553: Blood alcohol content; 8027: Czechoslovakia; 2231: Drunkenness; 9150: Risk; 8109: Sweden; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00310578
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1980 12:00AM