Traffic Safety and Traffic Law Enforcement Papers

CARE Driver Distractions Study

Alcohol Age Crash Analysis – Projections of the Effect of Lowering the Legal Drinking Age in Alabama

A Review of Youth-Alcohol Traffic Crashes in Alabama During CY 2007

Analysis of the Wet vs. Dry Counties within Alabama

An Analysis of Teen-Age Driver Crashes 2005-2008

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CARE Driver Distractions Study

Brown, D.,

CAPS Research Report, Nov. 21, 2009.

This was a recent report requested to provide information for the Distracted Driver Summit held at UAB on December 3, 2009. A variety of driver distraction causes are discussed and compared.

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Alcohol Age Crash Analysis – Projections of the Effect of Lowering the Legal Drinking Age in Alabama

Brown, D.,

CAPS Research Report, Aug. 16, 2008.

This report, and the Op Ed that follows it, is in response to a number of prominent college presidents who have recently come out in favor of lowering the drinking age to 18 years. The goal of the report is to project how many additional fatalities will be caused in Alabama should the law be change in Alabama.

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A Review of Youth-Alcohol Traffic Crashes in Alabama During CY 2007

Brown, D., A. Watkins,

CAPS Research Report, Jan. 15, 2009.

As part of their youth-alcohol program, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs requested a special study to focus on the development of Youth-DUI countermeasures. This report is in three sections. The first is a summary of recommended countermeasures in prioritized order based upon estimated cost-benefit. The recommendations are based upon the detailed analysis performed for Alabama and reviews of potential countermeasures given in the literature. The second and third sections of this report provide the detailed data analysis that was originally performed for the State of Alabama for CY (calendar year) 2003. These have been updated using CY 2007 data.

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Analysis of the Wet vs. Dry Counties within Alabama

Brown, D.,

CAPS Research Report, Jan. 31, 2009.

CARE IMPACT analyses were performed to compare 13 dry counties with 13 wet counties over their various crash characteristics for a recent five-year (2003-2007) time period. The results fall into two logical categories: those that compare the demographics of the counties and those that compare the crash characteristics with regard to alcohol. A few of the nearly 200 attribute comparisons are presented in this report in order to guide the future direction of the research project.

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An Analysis of Teen-Age Driver Crashes 2005-2008

Brown, D., A. Watkins,

CAPS Research Report, Jan. 10, 2010.

This study was conducted at the request of an advocate group that wanted information to assist them in developing public information and education countermeasuers for teen-age drivers. While most past CAPS studies of youth-involved drivers were limited to 16-20 year olds, the advocate group was also interested in 15 year olds, and they were not interested in 20 year olds since their projects were oriented around teen drivers. Several studies were conducted, including CARE IMPACT studies that compared 15, 16-19 and 15-19 year old causal drivers with causal drivers in the older age group.

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