drunk driving
Data Supports MADD’s Recommendations to Curb Holiday Drunk Driving
The Christmas season is one of the times each year when families separated by miles of highway make concerted efforts to gather together in celebration. Crowded kitchens and bulging guest rooms are part of the holiday ambience.
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Women Arrested for Drunk Driving Increases While Men Take More Care
For those women who are striving for greater equality between the sexes, women are definitely gaining on men in one key area: arrests for drunken driving. According to a Chicago Tribune story, women are racing to catch up to men in DUI arrests, who still greatly outnumber women.
With this gap still in place, how is equality making a change? The number of arrests for men is declining, while the number of arrests for women is steadily rising. As Gail D’Onofrio, chairwoman of the emergency medicine department at Yale School of Medicine stated, “We’ve come a long way, baby, and this is not a good way.”
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Intervention Method May Help Curb Drunk Driving
Driving while intoxicated is not only illegal, it also puts the life of the driver and everyone else on the road at risk. The biggest problem on the road today is DWI recidivists, or those who re-offend. Many of these individuals fail to participate in mandated alcohol-evaluation and intervention programs or continue to drink problematically after their license has been re-issued.
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Australian Police to Use Twitter to Target Drunk Driving
Australian police announced that they will begin using Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, to discourage drunk driving among young people. Victoria state police deputy commissioner Ken Lay said he would post “embarrassingly boozy breath readings” recorded during traffic operations in an attempt to make people think twice about drinking and driving.
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Drunk Driving Down; Drugged Driving Up
A government survey found that the number of drunk-driving cases has fallen sharply over the last 30 years due to tougher laws and a shift in societal views on alcohol. However, a separate survey showed that for the first time, 16.3 percent of nighttime weekend drivers tested positive for drugs—mainly marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
Visible Intoxication is Different From Obvious Intoxication
Impaired driving is one of the most well known deadly consequences of alcohol intoxication. As well as people understand the side effects of intoxication, it can still be difficult for trained observers to fully identify intoxication.
A recent review that examines the definition of intoxication and the methods that are designed to prevent impaired driving. One key point of this review is that obvious intoxication, as defined in many court rooms, is not the same as visible intoxication.
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Israel’s Driving Simulator Tests the Effects of both Alcohol and Marijuana
We’ve all heard the argument that drunk drivers are more dangerous than stoned drivers (and vice versa), but statistics have never been conclusive. This longstanding debate prompted scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University to build a high-tech simulator to conduct further research on the topic.
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California Noticing Surge in Female Drunk Driving
The roads in California are becoming more dangerous. According to a report in the Sacramento Bee, the state is seeing a surge in young women getting behind the wheel and driving drunk.
While men still dominate in the number of cases of driving under the influence, DUI crashes are up more than 100 percent in the past 10 years among women in the 21 to 24 age bracket.
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