The decision of young drivers to drink and drive is influenced by various determinisms: self perception of intoxication, environmental pressures, possibility of alternative behaviour. For example, it is known from previous works that three types of self-estimates of BAC exist: underestimators, overestimators, even estimators. The probability or the frequency of drunk driving are different between the three groups. Five breathanalyzers have been set up in five French discos. Interviews were conducted with a sample of French young drivers (N=71). The interviews, the subjective estimates and the objective measures of BAC took place when the young driver was entering the disco and when he was leaving. This report presents: disco and when he was leaving. This report presents: the correlates of under- or over-estimation of BAC (age, sex, social background, traffic safety records, attitudes); the implications for road safety of: the underestimation and over-estimation of BAC by young people, the introduction of breathanalyzers in discos and bars; an analysis of young drivers' attitudes, knowledge and opinions (for example, knowledge about the legal limit, about the impairment thresholds; strategies used for decision making of young riders such as the evaluation of the state of drunkenness of a driver; opinions about the effects of alcohol on driving, the countermeasures of DUI; etc). (A)
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