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The NHTSA have published numerous training manuals associated with FSTs. [59] As a result of the NHTSA studies, the walk-and-turn test was determined to be 68% accurate, and the one-leg stand test is only 65% accurate when administered to people within the study parameters.
The NHTSA used to say that those who are 50 pounds or more overweight may have difficulty performing the test, and that the suspect must walk along a real line. Later NHTSA manuals removed the weight comment, and also inserted the phrase 'imaginary line' at the instruction phase, even though original research always used a visible line. [32]
In 1972, the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act (Pub. L. 92–513, 86 Stat. 947, enacted October 20, 1972) expanded NHTSA's scope to include consumer information programs. Despite improvements in vehicle design and public awareness of issues like drunk driving, traffic fatalities have remained stubbornly high.
In the U.S., one alcohol-related driving death occurs every 39 minutes. (13,384 people died in 2021 from alcohol-related traffic deaths, up 14 percent from 2020.
Despite being published in 2022, the NHTSA study only tracked one year of post-.05 data: Utah's 2019 drunk driving deaths (the .05 law was passed in 2018 and went into effect starting in 2019 ...
According to the NHTSA, about 37 people in the United States die everyday in drunk-driving crashes. A NHTSA report showed that 13,384 people died in alcohol-impaired driving collisions, a 14% ...
Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English [1]) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol. A small increase in the blood alcohol content increases the relative risk of a motor vehicle crash. [2] In the United States, alcohol is involved in 32% of all traffic fatalities. [3] [4]
Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely. [1]