This work was conducted to gain detailed knowledge about the characteristics of underage drinking drivers and the social events leading up to serious alcohol-involved crashes, and to determine how these factors might relate to specific countermeasures. This study investigates, in case study format, all underage drivers in Michigan convicted of driving under the influence of liquor and causing a death (OUIL-death) during the two years following the enactment of this felony crime. All eight underage drivers convicted of OUIL-death were selected from the Michigan Department of State driver-record data base. Information on these cases was gathered from driving, court, and arrest records. The results showed that the drivers tended not to wear safety belts, had poor driving histories, tended to get alcohol from older friends or relatives, tended to drink beer while in their vehicles, were traveling with excessive speed prior to their crash, tended to kill a friend in the crash, and tended to take little responsibility for their actions. The results show that the underage felony drunk drivers in the study fit many characteristics of other underage drinking drivers.
Profile of Adolescent Drivers Convicted of Felony Drunk Driving
1996
44 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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