%0 Journal Article
%T Hazards Faced by Young Designated Drivers: In-Car Risks of Driving Drunken Passengers
%A Peter J. Rothe
%A Linda J. Carroll
%J International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
%D 2009
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/ijerph6061760
%X 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 ˇ°rough-housingˇ± 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.
%K impaired driving
%K designated driver
%K traffic safety
%K injury control
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/6/1760