Drinking passengers and their drivers : roadside survey results.

Author(s)
Foss, R.D. & Beirness, D.J.
Year
Abstract

Among the approaches suggested for dealing with drinking-driving is for an unimpaired passenger to drive. However, at present little is known about the blood alcohol contents (BACs) of passengers. A few studies have examined BACs of injured or killed passengers. This study provides passenger BAC data for a representative sample of the nighttime driving population. In those vehicles with two or more passengers and at least one drinker, the passenger had the higher BAC in 68% of cases. However, 61% of legally impaired drivers had no passenge. Among legally impaired drivers with a passenger, 53% of passengers also had an illegal BAC. (A)

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Library number
C 9055 (In: C 9037 S) /83 / IRRD 893909
Source

In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 7-9, 1996, p. 263-273, 9 ref.

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