@article{ref1,
title="An Evaluation of the General Deterrent Effect of Vehicle Impoundment on Suspended and Revoked Drivers in California",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="2000",
author="DeYoung, D. J.",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="51-59",
abstract="This study used interrupted time series analysis to evaluate whether implementing a law in California allowing peace officers to impound/forfeit vehicles operated by drivers with suspended/revoked driver licenses was associated with changes in the crash rates among such drivers. The effects of the impoundment/forfeiture laws on crashes for suspended/revoked drivers were examined using crashes among validly licensed drivers as a control. While statistically significant intervention effects were found for suspended/revoked drivers, significant effects were also discovered for validly licensed drivers. Models examining crashes for suspended/revoked drivers that statistically controlled the effects of crashes for validly licensed drivers found only borderline statistically significant results. Thus, this study found no evidence that simply threatening to impound/forfeit the vehicles of suspended/revoked drivers affected their crash rates. This contrasts to a previous study, which showed that actually impounding the vehicles of such drivers substantially lowered their rates of subsequent crashes and traffic convictions.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}