We focus on improving car and booster seat and seat belt use and reducing impaired driving, and helping groups at risk: child passengers, teen drivers, and older adult drivers. CDC also works to prevent pedestrian and bicycle injuries.
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm
How can deaths and injuries from impaired driving be prevented? ... In 2006, 13,470 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (32%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1...
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Driving under the influence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Driving under the influence of alcohol ( driving while intoxicated , drunk driving , operating under the influence , drinking and driving , drink-driving , "'impaired driving'") or other dr...
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Alternative Transportation Programs: A Countermeasure for Reducing Impaired Driving ... The 2006 National Labor Day Impaired Driving Enforcement Crackdown: Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.
www.stopimpaireddriving.org/ www.stopimpaireddriving.org/
The Impaired Driving Division develops partnerships to cooperatively save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and economic costs resulting from impaired driving (alcohol and other drugs).
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.18e416bf1b... www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.18e416bf1b09b6bbbf30811060008a0c/
Program efforts are focused in the folowing areas: alcohol-impaired driving, drug-impaired driving, occupant protection (including child safety seats), speed and aggressive driving, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, motorcyclist safety, older driver safety, improving emergency medical services, drowsy driving and new...
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
Programs and campaigns dedicated to preventing impaired driving ... Impaired driving, which means driving while your ability is affected by alcohol or drugs, is a crime under the Criminal Code of Canada. If convicted, you can lose your licence, be fined, or spend time in jail. Your vehicle does not even have to be moving;
www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/impaired/ www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/impaired/
The authors explain "Driving is a complex task that requires adequate cognitive, psychomotor and visuoperceptualmotor functions that work together. These functions can be compromised to a greater or lesser extent in patients with cancer in the head and neck region who have received cancer treatment." ;
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82719.php
December is America's National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month (3D Month), which is supported by public- and private-sector organizations devoted to preventing impaired-driving crashes ... Comprehensive approaches that implement several interventions simultaneously will further reduce alcohol-impaired driving.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17370.php