EXPERIMENTS WITH BREATH TEST EQUIPMENT BY THE POLICE IN FRIESLAND

PROEFNEMING MET ADEMANALYSE-APPARATUUR DOOR DE POLITIE IN FRIESLAND

To prepare the alteration of the law which will introduce breath test equipment as a legal substitute for the blood test a comparative survey was carried out. The results of standard breath tests (0,8 pro mille), the new intoxilyzer and the conventional blood tests were compared. The outcome shows that when relying entirely on the intoxilyzer instead of a blood test, no intoxilyzer test would have shown penal pro mille contents of alcohol incorrectly (no "false positives"). On the other hand some persons would unjustly have been cleared of drunk driving ("false negatives"). (TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

  Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
  The Hague,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • VIS, A A
  • Houwing, R J
• Publication Date: 1984-11

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 494-497
• Serial:
  • Verkeerskunde
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
  • ISSN: 0377-8495
  • Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol breath tests; Alternatives analysis; Blood alcohol levels; Errors; Evaluation and assessment; Legislation; Measuring instruments; Test procedures
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Old TRIS Terms: Breathalyzers
• ITRD Terms: 1542: Alcohol test; 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 6440: Error; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1556: Legislation; 8078: Netherlands; 6288: Test method
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00395055
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1985 12:00AM