More than 8,000 graduates of the National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course completed surveys describing their accident and violation histories for the year before they took the course and again for the year following their completion of the course. Comparison group information was obtained for other drivers entering the program later. The…

Alcohol education and rehabilitation programs are widely accepted as an integral part of the enforcement of drunk driving laws; however, careful evaluations of these programs generally fail to show subsequent beneficial effects on traffic crashes. This fact is due in part to the many barriers to conducting sound program evaluations and in part to…