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Does the type of exposure to a roadside sobriety checkpoint influence driver perceptions regarding drunk driving?
1Department of Public and Community Health, University of Maryland, 2366 Health and Human Performance Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA. kbeck1@umd.edu
Objectives:
To determine if the type of exposure to roadside sobriety checkpoints is related to vulnerability of being stopped by the police for drinking and driving.
Methods:
Random household telephone surveys were conducted over 3 years.
Results:
Personally exposed drivers had lower perceptions of vulnerability than did drivers who knew a family member who had been stopped. Exposed drivers who also had a family member and an acquaintance that had been stopped had higher perceptions of vulnerability.
Conclusions:
Direct exposure to a checkpoint appears to lower perceptions of risk than if one has had only indirect exposure (ie, family or friends).
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