The SARTRE 3 survey has given the possibility to study and analyse several aspects of 23 different countries not only regarding road safety, but also about cultural aspects, as the drinking culture of the participant countries. This chapter will explore the following points: • Drinking behaviour and habits in participant countries • Opinions about alcohol risk when driving • Opinions about alcohol legislation • Reported experiences and opinions about enforcement • Opinions about measures to prevent drink-driving • Conclusions and recommendations. On one hand having so many participants will provide us with the possibility to have more points of views. But on the other hand it is much harder to identify groups of countries with similar characteristics or a “typical“ behaviour and phenomena as common denominator. For this reason analyses of groups of countries have been conducted, in order to have a more general view of the studied topic. The participant countries have been grouped as follows: • 5 Southern countries: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain • 3 Northern countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden (= Scandinavia) • 7 Eastern countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia • 8 Western countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland. The reported mean-averages of the answers in these four countries represented in the groups are not weighted with respect to the size of driver population in the respective countries. In addition, the results of the SARTRE 3 survey have partially been compared to the SARTRE 2 survey from 1997 to check for changes in time. As only 19 of the 23 SARTRE 3 countries also participated in SARTRE 2, these comparisons are restricted to the countries that participated in both surveys. (Author/publisher)
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