AN ASSESSMENT OF COUNTY PROGRAMS TO REDUCE DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED

The safety effects of three programs designed to reduce driving while intoxicated (DWI) in Bergen County, New Jersey, have been examined, using a number of time-series models. The results indicate that Strike Force, primarily a road checkpoint program, produced significant and lasting reductions in single vehicle night-time accidents, a proxy for alcohol-involved accidents, and similar but less consistent reductions in single vehicle night-time fatalities. Two programs emphasizing education and publicity about the dangers of intoxicated driving appear to have smaller and briefer effects.(A)

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• Authors:
  • Levy, D T
  • Asch, P
  • Shea, D
• Publication Date: 1990-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 247-256
• Serial:
  • Health Education Research
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISSN: 0268-1153
  • Serial URL: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Drivers; Education; Evaluation and assessment; Intoxication; Law enforcement; Mathematical models; Night; Prevention; Publicity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 1612: Accident rate; 9009: Decrease; 1772: Driver; 2231: Drunkenness; 2284: Education; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 6473: Mathematical model; 9052: Night; 9149: Prevention; 8573: Publicity; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00606732
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1991 12:00AM