Tag: Impaired Driving

Assessment of Driver Monitoring Systems for Alcohol Impairment Detection

  • December 3rd, 2024

This report reviews and assesses driver monitoring systems (DMS) and related technologies for alcoholimpairment detection and SAE International Level 2 partial driving automation systems. For the review oftechnologies to identify driver alcohol impairment, 331 technologies were reviewed. The systems were classifiedas physiology-based, tissue spectroscopy-based, camera-based, vehicle kinematics-based, hybrid, and patent-stage systems. A key focus was […]

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Alcohol-Impaired Driving 2022 Traffic Safety Facts

  • July 15th, 2024

Drivers are considered to be alcohol-impaired when their blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) are .08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or higher. Thus, any fatal traffic crash involving a driver with a BAC of .08 g/dL or higher is considered to be an alcohol-impaired-driving crash, and fatalities occurring in those crashes are considered to be alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities. […]

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Drug-Impaired Driving Data Collection: Report to Congress

  • June 25th, 2024

This report was prepared in accordance with Section 25025 (Drug-Impaired Driving Data Collection) of the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA), Pub. L. 117-58. The report summarizes what is known about the collection of drug-impaired driving data and its reporting to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The report describes the FARS data collection process […]

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Best Practices of Successful State Impaired-Driving Task Forces

  • June 7th, 2024

Impaired driving continues to be a significant public health and public safety problem in the United States. In 2021 some 30 percent of the 42,915 traffic fatalities involved alcohol-impaired drivers (drivers with blood alcohol concentrations [BACs] of .08 grams per deciliter or higher). In addition, there has been a significant increase in drug-impaired driving and […]

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NHTSA Takes First Step Toward Impaired Driving Prevention Standard to Save Lives

  • January 11th, 2024

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken the first step toward making impaired-driving prevention technology standard in new passenger vehicles. The Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that NHTSA is announcing today helps fulfill a requirement in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and supports the Department’s National Roadway Safety Strategy. Read the full article here.

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Impact of Compliance-Based Removal Laws on Alcohol-Impaired Driving Recidivism

  • August 22nd, 2023

Every state in the U.S. has enacted alcohol-impaired driving laws, which prohibit driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) at or above a .08%. In 2017, the Utah Legislature passed HB155 “Driving Under the Influence and Public Safety Revisions” that changed the state’s illegal limit from .08 to .05 on December 30, 2018. Although alcohol-impaired […]

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Cannabis Consumers and Safe Driving: Responsible Use Messaging

Cannabis Consumers and Safe Driving: Responsible Use Messaging

  • July 27th, 2022

GHSA’s new report with Responsibility.org and the National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID), Cannabis Consumers and Safe Driving: Responsible Use Messaging, provides guidance on how State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) can better communicate with cannabis consumers about safe driving and offers recommendations about the types of messages that do and don’t work.  The ONLY safe […]

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Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol-Impaired Driving

Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol-Impaired Driving

  • June 13th, 2022

Drivers are considered to be alcohol-impaired when their blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) are .08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or higher. Thus, any fatal crash involving a driver with a BAC of .08 g/dL or higher is considered to be an alcohol-impaired-driving crash, and fatalities occurring in those crashes are considered to be alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities. The […]

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