Drinking and driving in southeastern Brazil

Acesse: Drinking and driving in southeastern Brazil: Results from a roadside survey study

Drinking and driving in southeastern Brazil

Valdir Ribeiro Campos, Rebeca de Souza e Silva, Sérgio Duailibi, Ronaldo Laranjeira, Ester Nakamura Palacios, Joel W. Grube, Ilana Pinsky

Overall, 24.6% of drivers had a detectable blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and 15.9% had a BAC above the legal limit (0.6 g/l) at the time of the study. Logistic regression controlling for locale (city), sex, age and marital status was used to predict whether each driver would present a positive breath test. Socio-demographic characteristics, driving behaviors and attitudes, and alcohol consumption patterns were included as predictors. These analyses indicated that those who believed drinking and driving was a serious offense were about two-thirds as likely to have a positive breath test, and that drivers reporting a pattern of regular alcohol use were three times as likely to have a positive breath test.