1968 Alcohol and Highway Safety Report: A Study Transmitted by the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to the Congress, in Accordance with the Requirements of Section 204 of the Highway Safety Act of 1966, Public Law 89-564 |
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90th Congress adversely affected Alameda Counties alcohol and highway ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION Chapter alcohol concentration specified alcohol in relation alcoholic beverages Appendix behavior blood alcohol concentrations breath-testing California Chapter 2 Figure chemical test concentration 0 00 concentrations among drivers concerned Court crashes after drinking crashes and violations crashes involving alcohol Dade County dram shop drink and drive drinking drivers drive after drinking drivers and adult drivers and pedestrians drivers fatally injured driving while intoxicated drugs drunken driving effects of alcohol evidence extent fatal crashes fatally injured drivers heavy drinkers high blood alcohol high ranges highway crashes Highway Safety Act impaired implied consent law influence of alcohol injured in crashes involved in crashes license liquor motor vehicle National Safety Council Percent of Drivers Percentage police problem drinkers programs relation to highway responsible for fatal scientific specific statute Traffic Safety Transportation standard Washtenaw County
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Page 169 - Any person placed under arrest for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol is deemed to have given his consent to a chemical test of his blood, breath, or urine for the purpose of determining the alcohol content of his blood.
Page 169 - Each State, in cooperation with its political subdivisions, shall develop and implement a program to achieve a reduction in those traffic accidents arising in whole or in part from persons driving under the influence of alcohol.
Page 153 - Alcoholics are those excessive drinkers whose dependence upon alcohol has attained such a degree that it shows a noticeable mental disturbance or an interference with their bodily and mental health, their interpersonal relations, and their smooth social and economic functioning; or who show the prodromal signs of such development.
Page 101 - It is unlawful and punishable as provided in paragraph (d) of this section for any person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor to drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle within this state.
Page 110 - Mood provided that such test is administered at the direction of a police officer having reasonable grounds to believe such person to have been driving in an intoxicated condition and in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the police force of which he is a member.
Page 60 - The figures show that crimes of physical violence are associated with intoxicated persons. Cuttings (11 to 1 under the influence of alcohol), the carrying of concealed weapons (8 to 1 under the influence of alcohol), and other assaults (10 to 1 under the influence of alcohol) are definitely crimes of alcohol, even crimes of true intoxication.
Page 110 - State shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical test of his breath, blood, urine or saliva for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of his blood, provided the test is administered (1) at the direction of a police officer having reasonable grounds to believe such person to have been driving in an intoxicated condition, and (2) in accordance with rules and regulations established by the police force of which he is a member.
Page 147 - The author of this communication shows clearly that the management of automobile wagons is far more dangerous for men who drink than the driving of locomotives on steel rails. Inebriates and moderate drinkers are the most incapable of all persons to drive motor wagons. The general palsy and diminished power of control of both the reason and senses are certain to invite disaster in every attempt to guide such wagons. The precaution of railroad companies to have only total abstainers guide their engines...
Page 83 - Certain services generally available to patients with other disorders are frequently denied to problem drinkers by policy or practice. These include hospital insurance coverage, admission to general hospitals, assistance by public -welfare agencies, voluntary admission to mental hospitals, and participation in most mental hospital after-care programs.
Page 3 - States, however, the so-called "implied consent" statutes under which many breath and blood tests are used apply only in situations in which drivers have already been arrested for driving while intoxicated or for similar offenses. Implications for Other Means of Reducing Injury and Death The historic intractability of the problem of alcohol in relation to highway safety and the likelihood that it will be difficult to reduce the continuing predominant role of heavy drinkers in the near future make...