Youth Driving Without Impairment: Report on the Youth Impaired Driving Public Hearings

摘要

Aware of the need to encourage a systemwide approach, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD) held a series of public hearings to examine the problem of youth impaired driving and to locate and disseminate information about existing programs that might prove useful to those concerned about the problem. With a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and support from Allstate Insurance and other corporate donors, the NCADD scheduled five public hearings in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta and Fort Worth. An advisory committee was established to structure the format of the hearings and to suggest speakers and panelists. Nine topics were selected for discussion: school responsibility, extracurricular programs, community responsibility, workplace programs, enforcement, licensing, adjudication, supervision and legislation. At each hearing, an effort was made to solicit verbal and written testimony on all nine subjects. The report represents a distillation of that testimony. Before publication, the report was submitted for review and comment to 25 professionals in the health and traffic safety field.