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Title:

RESEARCH NEEDS TO REDUCE UNDERAGE DRINKING AND DRIVING AND RELATED MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH INVOLVEMENT

Accession Number:

00970533

Record Type:

Component

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00978515

Abstract:

This paper focuses on research questions that if answered will help delay early onset of drinking, the amount of drinking by persons under 21, and alcohol related traffic deaths involving persons under 21. Considerable progress has been made in the past 15 years in reducing alcohol related traffic fatalities among youth stimulated in large part by the minimum legal drinking age of 21 and zero-tolerance laws for drivers under 21, as well as the considerable publicity that preceded and followed passage of those laws. Safety belt laws have also been demonstrated to reduce alcohol related traffic fatalities among youth. Nonetheless, research clearly indicates that alcohol produces greater impairment of driving tasks for youth, and each drink increases single vehicle fatal crash risk more for drivers under 21 than above 21. Consequently, there is a need to constantly seek to identify new approaches to reduce driving after drinking as each year new cohorts enter the driving pool.

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Monograph Accession #:

00970530

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hingson, R W

Pagination:

p. 56-68

Publication Date:

2001-1

Serial:

Transportation Research Circular

Issue Number: 502
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0097-8515

Conference:

Transportation Research Board Midyear Meeting and Workshop of the Committee on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation

Location: Irvine, California
Date: 1999-8-19 to 1999-8-20
Sponsors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; NHTSA; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Transport Canada; International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety; National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; NTSB; and TRB.

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References

Subject Areas:

Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Mar 22 2004 12:00AM

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