Conference paper
The impact of safety measures on the re-offence and crash rates of drink-driving offenders in Victoria
Proceedings of the 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference, pp.1-10
Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC): Taking Action Together, 2015 (Gold Coast, Australia, 14-Oct-2015–16-Oct-2015)
Australasian College of Road Safety
2015
Abstract
Alcohol is a major factor in road deaths and serious injuries. In Victoria, between 2008 and 2013, 30% of drivers killed were involved in alcohol-related crashes. From the early 1980s Victoria progressively introduced a series of measures, such as driver licence cancellation and alcohol interlocks, to reduce the level of drink-driving on Victoria's roads. This project tracked drink-driving offenders to measure and understand their re-offence and road trauma involvement levels during and after periods of licensing and driving interventions. The methodology controlled for exposure by aggregating crashes and traffic violations within relevant categories (e.g. licence cancelled/relicensed/relicensing not sought) and calculated as rates 'per thousand person-years'. Inferential statistical techniques were used to compare crash and offence rates between control and treatment groups across three distinct time periods, which coincided with the introduction of new interventions. This paper focuses on the extent to which the Victorian drink-driving measures have been successful in reducing re-offending and road trauma involvement during and after periods of licence interventions. It was found that a licence cancellation/ban is an effective drink-driving countermeasure as it reduced drink-driving offending and drink-driving crashes. Interlocks also had a positive effect on drink-driving offences as they were reduced during the interlock period as well as for the entire intervention period. Possible drink-driving policy implications are briefly discussed.
Details
- Title
- The impact of safety measures on the re-offence and crash rates of drink-driving offenders in Victoria
- Authors
- Angela Watson (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyKelly Imberger (Author) - VicRoadsAntonietta Cavallo (Author) - VicRoadsDavid Healy (Author) - DJ Healy Road Safety Consulting (Australia)James E Freeman (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAshleigh J Filtness (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyHollie Wilson (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyJohn Catchpole (Author) - Australian Road Research Board
- Contributors
- I Cameron (Editor)Narelle L Haworth (Editor)L McIntosh (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference, pp.1-10
- Conference details
- Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC): Taking Action Together, 2015 (Gold Coast, Australia, 14-Oct-2015–16-Oct-2015)
- Publisher
- Australasian College of Road Safety
- Date published
- 2015
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513756202621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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