15 countries, including Switzerland, took part in a European study to ascertain the social attitudes of car drivers towards risk in road traffic. This report is mainly concerned with presenting the Swiss results of the survey, which was based on representative interview techniques and made use of a questionnaire containing more than 60 questions. These covered the following main topics: a) awareness of risk in road traffic as a problem; b) speed; c) seat-belts; and d) drinking and driving. The Swiss report deals with the following additional special questions: 1) acceptance of preventive measures; 2) driving behaviour; and 3) regional differences regarding the main topics. The methodology involved the use of various procedures. In a general section the results are presented descriptively. Special questions were subjected to cross tabulation analysis. The Swiss data were processed by analysing canonical correlations regarding the differences among the language regions and the differences with regard to neighbouring countries (special assignment SWOV, NL).
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