The Drinking-driver Problem: What Can be Done about It? : Report to the Congress |
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Page 1 - ... occasionally after drinking. However, the scientific evidence is irrefutable that the problem is primarily...
Page 4 - Each State shall have a highway safety program approved by the Secretary, designed to reduce traffic accidents and deaths, injuries, and property damage resulting therefrom. Such programs shall be in accordance with uniform standards promulgated by the Secretary.
Page 4 - 401. Authority of the Secretary. "402. Highway safety programs. "403. Highway safety research and development. "404. National highway Safety Advisory Committee. "§ 401. Authority of the Secretary "The Secretary is authorized and directed to assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase highway safety.
Page i - Government at all levels , private organizations , and concerned citizen groups are spending millions of dollars on various drinking-driver programs, yet statistics continue to indicate that, overall, one-half of highway fatalities in the United States are related to alcohol.
Page i - ... problem, Federal project evaluations, and views of individuals knowledgeable in the traffic safety field led GAO to conclude that society's general acceptance of drinking and driving is the main obstacle to solving the drinking-driver problem. Before any significant reduction in alcohol-related traffic accidents will occur, a long term continuous educational commitment must be made. Governments, educational institutions, and the general public need to work together to change attitudes about drinking...
Page 5 - ... forthcoming. Instead, Mr. Boyd indicated that a recommendation was presented by Mr. Hughes of the Bureau of the Budget, to the Senate Subcommittee on Government Operations, dealing with this subject as it related to displacement from all kinds of public actions, not highways alone. The 1966 Highway Act required the Secretary of Transportation to submit to the Congress a report concerning the relocation problem by July 1967. All of the State highway departments were requested by the Bureau of...
Page 37 - ... 1. The advertising of hard liquor shall not be accepted. 2. The advertising of beer and wines is acceptable when presented in the best of good taste and discretion. 3. The advertising of fortune-telling, occultism, astrology, phrenology, palm-reading, numerology, mind-reading, characterreading, or subjects of a like nature, is not acceptable. 4. Because the advertising of all products...
Page iv - Between l97l-78, 35 projects were conducted nationwide. — public awareness of the drinking-driver problem increased; — the number of arrests and convictions of drinking drivers increased; — the number of alcohol-involved nighttime fatalities decreased; — the number of problem drinkers identified and referred to rehabilitation programs increased; and — the commitment of responsible officials, (law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges) in dealing with the drinking driver improved....
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Page iii - ... problem; — rehabilitation programs to reduce the incidence of recurring drinking-driver situations; — specialized equipment to aid in detecting and prosecuting drinking drivers; — training programs for law enforcement officials, judges, and prosecutors to enhance their commitment in dealing with the drinking driver; and — laws to penalize those who serve intoxicated individuals. FEDERAL EFFORTS The first major impetus for Federal involvement in the drinking-driver area was the Highway...