Driving while affected by alcohol is a significant cause of road trauma in the community. Significant resources have been devoted to reducing the incidence of drink drinking, including ongoing enforcement efforts by Victoria Police. When Victoria Police officers are themselves detected driving in excess of the legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit, it undermines the...

Examines sentencing in Victorian courts over the seven years to July 2013 for culpable driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, negligently causing serious injury (where driving related), and dangerous driving causing serious injury.

This paper finds that detainees do perceive a risk related to drink and drug driving, in terms of impairment in driving ability and potential detection by police. These conditions are likely to result in deterrence from drink and drug driving for some detainees. Introduction In Australia, random breath testing (RBT) was introduced in the mid-1970s...

This snapshot about the harms of alcohol shows Aucklanders perform substantially worse than other New Zealanders, particularly: • The rate of alcohol-related crashes for Auckland drivers is 28% above the national rate • Eight per cent of adult Auckland drinkers consume more than eight drinks in a typical session, compared to a national average of...

While there is a lot of work around drink-driving, it generally focuses on young men and the risk they pose to themselves and to others. There is no doubt that young men are the most concerning demographic. However, with the on-going publicity around young women and binge drinking, this report analyses the available statistics on...