@article{ref1,
title="The draft federal law on driving while intoxicated: increased protection for the citizen?",
journal="Canadian journal of public health",
year="1985",
author="Nadeau, Louise and Poupart, Andre",
volume="76",
number="6",
pages="404-406",
abstract="In December 1984, the Canadian Government proposed a change in legislation pertaining to drinking and driving. The authors question if the new project will have the anticipated deterrance effect. There is no consensus among analysts in the interpretation of the data concerning the severity of penalties: it appears difficult to disentangle the effects of the severity of penalty from the threatening effects of the law. However, the belief that there is a probability of being arrested and convicted if driving while intoxicated leads to a significant decrease in impaired driving and road accidents. A corpus of research confirms that repressive measures do not have a long term effect in and by themselves. Furthermore, the data indicate that certain drivers, most probably habitual drinkers, concentrate a good proportion of accidents and the belief in the probability of being arrested may also affect their behavior. Road safety brings about the issue of human rights. Presently, our society is more sensitive to the freedom of right of drivers even though the risks for personal integrity arise more from the possibility of an accident caused by a drunken driver than from the intake of a breath sample.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0008-4263",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}