This report re-examines the problem of the hard core drinking driver - those individuals who repeatedly drive after drinking, especially with high blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) and who seem relatively resistant to changing this behaviour. It shows that there has been virtually no change in the magnitude of the problem since the release of our previous report in 1991. Although hard core drinking drivers are a relatively small group in the total driving population, they continue to account for a very substantial proportion of drinking-driving problems, including fatal and injury-producing crashes. To illustrate, hard core drinking drivers account for only 1% of all drivers on the road at night during the weekend, but they represent nearly half of all the fatal crashes at that time. They also account for almost one-third (27%) of all fatally injured drivers and about two-thirds (65%) of all fatally injured drivers who are drinking. The report focuses on a variety of measures that offer promise for dealing efficiently and effectively with hard core drinking drivers.
Samenvatting