Citation

Ross HL, Klette H. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1995; 27(2): 151-157.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7786382

Abstract

In 1988 and 1990, respectively, Norway and Sweden adopted legal reforms including abandonment of mandatory jail sentences for persons driving with BACs above specific limits. Interrupted time-series analysis finds that in both countries traffic deaths diminished simultaneously with the reforms, consistent with the understanding that Scandinavian success in reducing impaired driving does not depend upon mandatory jail.