Impaired-driving Program Assessments: a Summary of Recommendations (1991 to 2003).

Impaired-driving Program Assessments: a Summary of Recommendations (1991 to 2003).
Author: Darrell W. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Drinking and traffic accidents
ISBN:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developed an assessment process that gives States an opportunity to conduct a review of their efforts to control impaired driving by an outside team of nationally recognized experts. Each assessment examines a State's overall program and presents recommendations to improve or enhance it. NHTSA reviewed 38 State assessment reports and found 2,982 individual recommendations, including 852 that were identified as priority recommendations by the teams. Most of the recommendations fit into 10 thematic areas: (1) increasing deterrence by prioritizing enforcement efforts and enhancing the arrest, prosecution, and adjudication process; (2) improving public information and education efforts related to prevention and deterrence; (3) remedying problems involving DUI data and records (reporting requirements, offender tracking systems, data linkages, uniform traffic citations); (4) enacting new laws or revising existing laws aimed at increasing the deterrence and/or prevention of DUI; (5) enhancing training for law enforcement, prosecution, and judicial personnel; (6) evaluating programs and activities to combat impaired driving; (7) providing sufficient resources for treatment and rehabilitation; (8) improving inter/intra-governmental coordination and cooperation; (9) providing funding (including self-sufficiency) to provide for adequate resources (personnel, equipment); and (10) developing or increasing task forces and/or community involvement.

Drinking and Driving Research Findings

Drinking and Driving Research Findings
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 85
Release: 1993-05
Genre:
ISBN: 1568063466

Discusses the Surgeon General's Workshop on Drunk Driving; research on and prevention of drinking and driving as well as alcohol-drug interactions; use of deterrent laws, treatment versus deterrence, and impersonal prevention. Charts, graphs, black and white photos.

Preventing Teen Motor Crashes

Preventing Teen Motor Crashes
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309179939

From a public health perspective, motor vehicle crashes are among the most serious problems facing teenagers. Even after more than six months of being licensed to drive alone, teens are two to three times more likely to be in a fatal crash than are the more experienced drivers. Crash rates are significantly higher for male drivers, and young people in the United States are at greater risk of dying or being injured in an automobile than their peers around the world. In fact, in 2003 motor vehicle crashes was the leading cause of death for youth ages 16-20 in the United States. Understanding how and why teen motor vehicle crashes happen is key to developing countermeasures to reduce their number. Applying this understanding to the development of prevention strategies holds significant promise for improving safety but many of these efforts are thwarted by a lack of evidence as to which prevention strategies are most effective. Preventing Teen Motor Crashes presents data from a multidisciplinary group that shared information on emerging technology for studying, monitoring, and controlling driving behavior. The book provides an overview of the factual information that was presented, as well as the insights that emerged about the role researchers can play in reducing and preventing teen motor crashes.

Implementation of Graduated Licensing for Young Drivers

Implementation of Graduated Licensing for Young Drivers
Author: Neilson Associates Pty. Ltd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1986
Genre: Drivers' licenses
ISBN:

Neilson Associates was commissioned by FORS to develop workable proposals for the implementation of graduated driver licensing (GLD) and suggest a course of action for the implementation of GDL. The report examines the possiblity of GDL in terms of objectives, various veiwpoints and available options. Issues covered include the background and rationale on GDL, the existing driver licensing system, current GDL proposal, reactions of officials and the community and information on young driver licensing and crash involvement rates. Young drivers. Graduate licensing. Road safety.