Drink driving

Figure 9.4. Relative probability of being involved in a road traffic accident with rising levels of alcohol. The shaded area indicates typical legal drink-driving limits in Westernised countries (80mg/100ml in the UK and some states of the USA, whereas lOOmg/lOOml is still the most prevalent legal level elsewhere in the USA).

Prosecution of a driver for being over the drink/drive limit based on the analysis of a blood sample. 

If a reading on a meter in a police station is above a certain level, then the suspect will be prosecuted for drink driving, otherwise not. Even in such a simple situation, there can be ambiguities, for example measurement errors and metabolic differences between people. 

In 2010 in Germany, the second most common cause of accidents (in relation to traffic deaths) was drink-driving, with 23 deaths and 332 seriously injured per 1000 accidents with bodily injury (Figure 1) [1]. 

Sensitive questions means of high private secret or most people think it s not convenient to state in public place, such as drugs, gambling, prostitution, drinking driving, personal income, tax evasion, premarital sex, venereal disease, AIDS and homosexual tendency etc. Sensitive questions have been classified as two kinds by the general characteristics, sensitive questions of quality characteristic and sensitive questions of quantity characteristic which is further classified as sensitive questions of binary choice and multiple choice. 

J. R. Gusfield (1981) The Culture of Public Problems Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order (Chicago University of Chicago Press). 

Although this method is little used in the alcoholic beverage industries, mainly because of its lack of specificity, it has found extensive application in breath and blood ethanol analyses associated with drink-driving cases. This method will be considered in more detail below. 

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Tay, R. (2005). Drink driving enforcement and publicity campaigns are the policy... 

Wells-Parker, E., R. Bangert-Drowns, R. McMillen and M. Williams (1995). Final results from a meta-analysis of remedial interventions with drink/drive offenders. Addict., 90(7), 907-926. 

Comparison of Car Drivers and Motorcyclists Drink Driving in 19 Countries Results from the... 

Previous studies showed that motorcyclists drink and drive as often as car drivers but with lower BAC. Moreover, when they know that they may drink heavily, motorcyclists typically leave their motorcycle and use their car. They may be trying to compensate for the greater vulnerability of their habitual transport mode by more cautious behavior. In total, 12,507 car drivers and 4,483 powered two-wheeler drivers from 19 countries were asked about their attitudes and behaviors related to driving while impaired. The results showed large differences between countries in alcohol consumption and reported drink driving. More specifically, the drivers from Northern Europe reported far less drink driving than Southern drivers. In most countries motorcyclists drink and drive almost as often as car drivers do. The comparison of motorcyclists and car drivers showed similar patterns of drink-driving processes. 

In this chapter, we focus only on the car drivers and powered two-wheeler behaviors and attitudes related to drink driving. 

The between-countiy variability was also found for perceived friends drinkdriving behavior (see Table 8.1). Indeed, Swedish drivers estimated rather low drink driving among their friends (4% for PTW and 14% for CD) whereas Italian drivers estimations were very high (90% for PTW and 81% for CD). For these questions,... 

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