The "Over the Limit, Under Arrest" campaign begins this week nationwide. Stunningly, 8% of Americans admit to drunk driving, even as four out of five Americans identify drunk driving as a "major threat" to safety.
Dept. of Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood writes about the topic in his blog:
A complete report, "National Survey of Drinking and Driving attitudes and Behaviors", is available from NHTSA.
Links:
[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/transportation-library
[2] http://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/08/earlier-this-week-national-highway-traffic-safety-administrator-david-strickland-kicked-off-our-annual-drunk-driving-enforce.html
[3] http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/traffic_tech/tt392.pdf
[4] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/drunk-driving
[5] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/ray-lahood