Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities : A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year of certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, and drownings, among others, and contributing to long-term disabilities from head and spinal injuries. Progress has been made over the past decades towards reducing these trends, but that progress has been incremental and has stagnated more recently. Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction and Context2 Current Environment: Alcohol, Driving, and Drinking and Driving3 Interventions to Reduce Drinking to Impairment4 Alcohol-Impaired Driving Interventions5 Postcrash and Arrest Interventions6 Data and Surveillance Needs and Opportunities7 Generating Action8 ConclusionAppendix A: Alcohol-Impaired Driving in the United States: Review of Data Sources and Analyses - Charles DiMaggio, Katherine Wheeler-Martin, and Jamie Oliver Appendix B: Content Analysis of Alcohol-Impaired Driving Stories in the News - Deborah A. FisherAppendix C: The Role of the Alcohol Industry in Policy Interventions for Alcohol-Impaired Driving - Thomas F. Babor, Katherine Robaina, and Jonathan Noel Appendix D: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Lessons from a Global Review - Adnan A. Hyder and Andres Vecino Appendix E: Committee Meeting AgendasAppendix F: Committee Biosketches