Hazards Faced by Young Designated Drivers: In-Car Risks of Driving Drunken Passengers

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Peter J. Rothe¹ 

[1] Centre for Health Promotion Studies and Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, School of Public Health, University of Alberta; 4075 RTF, 8308 – 114 Street; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; T6G 2E1

关键词: impaired driving;    designated driver;    traffic safety;    injury control;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph6061760

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This qualitative study explored the risk in the practice of young designated drivers transporting drunken peers. Young drivers 18–29 years old in Alberta, Canada participated in 12 focus groups (N = 146). Interviews were semi-structured. A key finding is that when highly intoxicated youth are driven by a designated driver who is a peer, they are likely to behave in ways that are unsafe. Unsafe actions of drunken passengers in the vehicle include physical “rough-housing” with the driver, creating stress for the driver that leads to high risk driving situations and disrupting safe driving through nausea and in-car vomiting.

【 授权许可】

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