Drinking Driver and Traffic Safety Project. Volume 1

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• Creators:
  Pollack, Seymour ; Didenko, O. R. ; McEachern, Alexander ; Berger, Raymond M.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Southern California. Public Systems Research Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Drivers
  • Drunk drivers
  • Drunk driving
  • Driver rehabilitation
  • Recidivists
  • Mathematical prediction
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-HS-800-699 ; NTIS-PB212252
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1524851
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  This is the final report of a four-year study of drinking drivers. On the basis of analyses of over 4,000 cases (approximately 1400 of whom were driver's license applicants who had no convictions for drunk-driving, and the remainder had been convicted at least once of drunk-driving), a simplified prediction model was developed which improves the discrimination between drinking drivers and non-drinking drivers by approximately 10%. A similar level of improvement was achieved for recidivist drunk-drivers compared with one-time drunk-drivers. In addition an experimental evaluation of the effects of different intervention' methods, which included AA, an Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center, films and lectures and different forms of group therapy, compared with a control group which were given conventional treatment, was carried out. The results were inconclusive, but suggested that for a short one-year follow-up period, there is little difference between the conventional and the experimental treatment methods, or among different experimental treatment methods. An extended follow-up, now under way, may invalidate this negative conclusion. /Abstract from report summary page/
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  FH-11-7099
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/1075/dot_1075_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.13 MB]
• Collection(s):
  NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:dcf096fcfc0f53b67b1faad9088a378e1d541f9286aa8559e1d20ab913e1d4b0