Seasonal and Time-Trend Variation by Gender of Alcohol-Impaired Drivers at Preventive Sobriety Checkpoints

Seasonal and Time-trend Variation of Alcohol-impaired Drivers at Preventive Sobriety Checkpoints

Drinking drivers missed at sobriety checkpoints.

OBJECTIVE Sobriety checkpoints are an effective deterrent to alcohol-impaired driving although a substantial proportion of drinking drivers who pass through checkpoints are missed. The present study was designed to determine the extent to which police officers correctly identify individuals with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above 0.05% at checkpoints, and if there are characteristi...

Effectiveness of Sobriety Checkpoints for Reducing Alcohol-Involved Crashes

The goal of sobriety checkpoints is to deter drinking and driving by systematically stopping drivers for assessment of alcohol impairment, thus increasing the perceived risk of arrest for alcohol-impaired driving. This review examines the effectiveness of random breath testing (RBT) checkpoints, at which all drivers stopped are given breath tests for blood alcohol levels, and selective breath t...

Detection of Drug Impaired Drivers – Standard Field Sobriety Tests

On 1 December 2000, new legislation came into force in Victoria to provide a framework for the procedure to be followed by police for the detection of drivers impaired by drugs other than alcohol. An integral part of the process is the use of the tests known as the Standard Field Sobriety Tests (SFST). This paper outlines the new legislative framework and drug impairment detection procedure the...

Alcohol-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes, by gender and state, 2007-2008.

This Research Note emphasizes recent trends in the number of alcohol-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes, by the gender of the driver as well as the State where the fatal crash occurred. This analysis was performed in light of recent data1 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that depicted a recent increasing trend in the number of female drivers arrested for driving under the influe...