AIMS The aim of the study was to examine the association between social background and drunken driving. METHODS A Finnish register on suspected drunken driving was combined with data on social background. There were 81,125 drivers arrested for drunken driving and 86,279 references from 1993 to 2007. RESULTS A low level of education, unemployment, living alone and divorce were strongly assoc...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about risk factors in early adolescence that lead to driving under the influence (DUI) and riding with a drinking driver (RWDD). In a diverse group of adolescents, we longitudinally explored the influence of alcohol and marijuana (AM) use, AM beliefs, and peer and family factors (including familism) on DUI/RWDD in high school. METHODS We conducted 3 surveys 2 years a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between driving while alcohol/drug impaired (DWI) and the timing and amount of exposure to others' alcohol/drug-impaired driving (riding while impaired [RWI]) and driving licensure timing among teenage drivers. METHODS The data were from waves 1, 2, and 3 (W1, W2, and W3, respectively) of the NEXT Generation Study, with longitudinal assessment of a nationa...

exhaust emissions contribute greatly to air pollution, the social cost of which may occur as danger to human health, attracting huge medical expenses, causing absenteeism and hence loss of productivity. these are incentives to reduce exhaust emissions to the barest minimum. two major cities in ghana, accra and kumasi, are struck by vehicular traffic jams especially during rush-hours and are gra...

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OBJECTIVE We examine the association between exposure to depictions of reckless driving in movies and unsafe driving, modeling inattentive and reckless driving as separate outcomes. METHODS Data were obtained by telephone from 1,630 US adolescents aged 10 to 14 years at baseline who were drivers at a survey 6 years later. Exposure to movie reckless driving was measured based on movies seen fr...

PURPOSE To determine which distracted driving laws were associated with decreased texting while driving among U.S. teenage drivers. METHODS Data from the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey were merged with states' distracted driving legislation. The prevalence of texting while driving was assessed for different laws using log-binomial regression. RESULTS Approximately 39.0%...

The paper is focused on an introduction of a set of experiments focused on objective methods used for detection of driving impairment caused by influence of different level of alcohol in blood. It introduces the initial experiments which were performed on our driving simulators; it describes proposed methodology of measurements and data analysis. It covers also the issues of testing track creat...

The origin of driving accidents is polyfactorial. If the mediocrity of the road network, the technical failures of the vehicles, the violation of the highway code represent an important percentage in the cause of accidents, the great purveyor remains "drunk driving" in the global number of accidents as well as in their importance. The public authorities have not only established laws in this ma...