ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PEER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR, RANDOM BREATH TESTING EXPERIENCE AND DRINK DRIVING IN A POPULATION-REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIANS

This study used a population-representative survey of 1,300 South Australian drinkers to examine associations between respondents' perceptions of peer drink driving behaviour and approval of drink driving, experience of random breath testing and self-reported drink driving. After controlling for age, gender, region of residence, regular drinking behaviour and drinking behaviour at locations away from home, perceptions that peers would drink drive and approve of drink driving were strongly related to the probability of the respondent also admitting to drink driving. Random breath testing experience was not related to drink driving. Specific causal links between peer behaviour and drink driving are unknown and require further investigation, but they may have implications for the conduct of future countermeasures. (a) For the record of the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no 868581.