The relationships among driving while impaired charges, police drinking—driving roadcheck activity, media coverage and alcohol-related casualty traffic accidents
✍ Scribed by G.William Mercer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 695 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-4575
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✦ Synopsis
Absbact
-A cotrelational examination of 54 consecutive months of data f'rom British Columbia on the relationships among the number of vehicles checked in police drinking-driving roadchecks. the number of driving while impaired IDWI) charges laid, the number and percent of alcohol-related casualty traffic accidents, and the extent of media coverage on drinking-driving (as measured by print media coverage), revealed that: the extent of media coverage, and nor the extent of roadchecks or charging activity is probably the critical element in the reduction of drinking-driving accidents. The failure of the minimally publicized April-May 1984 British Columbia police roadcheck "blitz" to reduce either the number or proportion of alcohol-related casualty traffic accidents lent support to these cotrelational findings.