Seasonal and Time-trend Variation of Alcohol-impaired Drivers at Preventive Sobriety Checkpoints
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Publicized sobriety checkpoint programs to reduce alcohol-impaired driving: recommendation of the Community Preventive Services Task Force.
Publicized sobriety checkpoint programs are a form of high-visibility enforcement at which law enforcement officers select vehicles in a systematic manner to stop and assess the driver’s degree of alcohol impairment. Media campaigns to publicize the enforcement activity are an integral part of these programs. The program goal is to reduce alcohol-impaired driving by increasing the public’s perc...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017