Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem
2018
This report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, produced with support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, identifies interventions and strategies to reduce alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, which account for approximately 10,000 deaths in the United States each year—29 people every day. The report evaluates interventions that seek both to reduce drinking to the point of impairment and to reduce driving while impaired, and presents ideas for engaging the public and policymakers in renewed efforts to eliminate deaths caused by alcohol-impaired driving. The authors argue that each alcohol-impaired driving crash represents a “failure of the system, whether that is excessive alcohol service, lack of transportation alternatives, lack of clinical services, or lack of effective policies or enforcement,” and advocate for a coordinated, multi-sectoral approach that engages federal, state, and municipal governments as well as health systems, insurers, and the public toward effective and decisive action.
This publication, which is available to download in full or by individual chapters, is accompanied by an overview of the report’s highlights and a fact sheet that presents key data related to alcohol-impaired driving and summarizes the report’s recommendations.
Source:
Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem. The National Academies Press 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/24951.