`Me officer?' : perceptions of the links between alcohol and driving.

Author(s)
Hutchinson, P.
Year
Abstract

In depth interviews with 48 convicted male drinking drivers, all drinking 50+ units per week, reveals strong perceptions against drink driving. Many have been exposed to strong parental attitudes against drink driving and the culture of the young is against it. Yet the majority never gave the matter much thought because their knowledge of alcohol, the limits and the law is so uncertain that personal state is the only measure. Some also perceive the law, the measurement of BAC and the elimination of alcohol to be imprecise and police practice so predictable as to be not worth consideration. When added to inexact personal definitions of both drinking and driving it is unsurprising that so many fall foul of a law the majority desire to uphold.

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Publication

Library number
C 17066 (In: C 17017 [electronic version only]) /83 / ITRD E107140
Source

In: Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety T2000 : proceedings of the 15th ICADTS International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Stockholm, Sweden, May 22nd - 26th, 2000, pp.-

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