Drinking and Driving in Western Australia

If politics is the art of the possible, then determining what the public will tolerate is an important step in the design of prevention strategies. In this random survey of 1205 residents of country and urban areas in Western Australia, attitudes towards drinking and driving, drink‐driving behaviour, and opinions of countermeasures were examined. Drink‐driving was seen as an important issue for the community and there was a perception that something needed to be done. Drinking and driving was a well‐established behaviour, but there was evidence that for many people ‘other’ people constitute the drink‐driving problem. There were popular and unpopular preventives, but, interestingly, those that were deemed popular were often believed to be less effective than those that were less popular. The policy implications of these findings are considered, particularly in the light of the current implementation of random breath testing in Western Australia

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