Drink driving

Natalie Watson-Brown, Barry Watson and Mark King

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 122-123 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Despite ongoing enforcement and education efforts to reduce drink driving and growing community disapproval of the behaviour, drink driving continues to be a major contributing factor to road crash fatalities and serious injuries. Alcohol consumption inhibits the ability to drive safely, even at low levels of consumption. Critically, the implementation of evidence-based countermeasures to reduce drink driving, with a systems-based approach, is necessary to eliminate this ongoing road safety issue. Beyond drivers’ experiences and individual factors that influence engagement in drink driving, broader contributing factors including road safety and alcohol use policy, rules and regulations, and societal factors should be addressed.

Keywords: Random breath testing; Sobriety checkpoints; Enforcement; Policing; Alcohol ignition interlocks; Punishment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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