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The Impact of Recent Changes in California Drinking-Driving Laws on Fatal Accident Levels During the First Postintervention Year: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Michael E. Hilton
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Abstract

In 1982, a set of strict new countermeasures against drinking-driving went into effect in California. Interrupted time series analysis is used to investigate the effect that these countermeasures have had on fatal accident levels during the first postintervention year. The results do not indicate that a deterrent impact occurred among those accidents. Supplementary analyses of injury accidents during the first postintervention year and of fatality accidents during the first nine months of 1983 add important qualifications to this basic finding.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , 1984 , pp. 605 - 627
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Copyright © 1984 The Law and Society Association

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This research was supported by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant (#T32 AA07240-05) to the Alcohol Research Group, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. I am indebted to Tracy Cameron of the Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California; Michael Wilson of the Institute for Policy Analysis, Eugene, Oregon; and Robert Jacobson of the University of California at Berkeley for their advice on the preparation of this study.

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