Citation

Costan D, Freeman T, Sabin MH. Abstr. Rev. Alcohol Driving 1983; 4(2).

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, UCLA Alcohol Research Center and UCLA Brain Information Service)

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Abstract

This article describes the initiation of a DUI program by the city of Redondo Beach, California following receipt of a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, the state office empowered to disburse federal traffic safety funds to local entities. Prior to the implementation of the grant in July 1980, there were six fatal traffic accidents of which four were alcohol related. Once the special enforcement was implemented, the remainder of 1980 resulted in only two fatal accidents neither of which was alcohol related. Other results of the DUI program are discussed, including some unanticipated benefits.