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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703255603321

Titolo

Alcohol-impaired driving : countermeasures and safety recommendations / / Michael C. Boehm, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, New York : , : Nova Science Publishers, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-62948-592-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (103 p.)

Collana

Safety and risk in society

Altri autori (Persone)

BoehmMichael C

Disciplina

363.1257

Soggetti

Drinking and traffic accidents

Drunk driving

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING COUNTER MEASURES AND SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING COUNTER MEASURES AND SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1 REACHING ZERO: ACTIONS TO ELIMINATE ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION""; ""SECTION 2. SCOPE OF THE IMPAIRED DRIVING PROBLEM""; ""SECTION 3. HISTORY OF EFFORTS TO REDUCEALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING""; ""SECTION 4. ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT AND ITS RISKS""

""SECTION 5. COUNTERMEASURES TO REDUCE ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING""""SECTION 6. REACHING ZERO""; ""SECTION 7. CONCLUSION""; ""SECTION 8. RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""BY THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD""; ""BOARD MEMBER STATEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""APPENDIX A. NTSBHIGHWAY RECOMMENDATION HISTORY ON IMPAIRED DRIVING""; ""APPENDIX B. ELEMENTS OF THE 2000 NTSB MODEL PROGRAM""; ""Chapter 2 TRAFFIC SAFETY FACTS: 2011 DATA, ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING""; ""CHILDREN""; ""TIME OF DAY AND DAY OF WEEK""; ""DRIVERS""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has long been concerned about alcohol-impaired driving, which accounts for approximately one-third of all U.S. highway fatalities. In the past



several decades, awareness of the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving has increased. Public and private entities focusing on this safety issue have changed social perceptions concerning alcohol-impaired driving; they have also achieved important legislative actions to help reduce it. Due to these efforts, the number of lives lost annually in alcohol-impaired-driver-related crashes declined 53 percent, from