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| R D FossSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Evaluation of the effects of North Carolina's 0.08% BAC lawR D Foss
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 3430, USA
Accid Anal Prev 33:507-17. 2001....- Initial effects of graduated driver licensing on 16-year-old driver crashes in North CarolinaR D Foss
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 730 Airport Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, USA
JAMA 286:1588-92. 2001..Since 1997, 32 states have enacted graduated driver licensing (GDL) systems to reduce crash rates among young novice drivers... - Enhancing the effectiveness of graduated driver licensing legislationRobert Foss
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, 730 Airport Road, CB 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, USA
J Safety Res 34:79-84. 2003..IMPACT ON RESEARCH, PRACTICE, AND POLICY: There is a need for better designed GDL systems in many states; more research is needed to examine compliance with restrictions and to evaluate enforcement efforts by parents and law enforcement... 
Short-term effects of a teenage driver cell phone restrictionRobert D Foss
University of North Carolina, Highway Safety Research Center, 730 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Suite 300 CB 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, USA
Accid Anal Prev 41:419-24. 2009..Overall, the findings suggest that North Carolina's cell phone restriction had little to no effect on teenage drivers' use of cell phones shortly after the law took effect...- Improving graduated driver licensing systems: a conceptual approach and its implicationsRobert D Foss
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
J Safety Res 38:185-92. 2007..Without a better understanding of these, and other, phenomena it will be difficult to further reduce crashes among young beginning drivers, whether through GDL enhancements or with other approaches... - Talking and texting among teenage drivers: a glass half empty or half full?Natalie P O'Brien
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3430, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 11:549-54. 2010..Cell phone use and text messaging in particular are associated with an increased risk of motor vehicle crashes. However, the frequency with which teenagers use cell phones while driving is still largely unknown... - The effects of graduated driver licensing on hospitalization rates and charges for 16-and 17-year-olds in North CarolinaLewis H Margolis
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7445, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 8:35-8. 2007..The objective of this study is to examine the association between the implementation of the North Carolina GDL program and the rate of hospitalization, as well as hospital charges, for 16-and 17-year-old drivers... - Parental supervision of teenage drivers in a graduated licensing systemArthur H Goodwin
University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 7:224-31. 2006.... - Encouraging compliance with graduated driver licensing restrictionsArthur H Goodwin
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, 730 Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd, Campus Box 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, USA
J Safety Res 37:343-51. 2006..Although graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs have reduced the high crash rates for 16-and 17-year-old drivers, research suggests that some teenagers fail to comply with restrictions on nighttime driving and carrying passengers... - Graduated driver licensing restrictions: awareness, compliance, and enforcement in North CarolinaArthur H Goodwin
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, 730 Airport Road, Campus Box 3430, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
J Safety Res 35:367-74. 2004..This study examined the extent to which critical restrictions in North Carolina's graduated driver licensing (GDL) system are known, adhered to, and enforced... - Long-term effect of the North Carolina graduated driver licensing system on licensed driver crash incidence: a 5-year survival analysisScott V Masten
University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, 730 Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd, Suite 300 Campus Box 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, United States
Accid Anal Prev 42:1647-52. 2010..The benefits are greater for males, who tend to have higher crash rates. The findings contradict conventional wisdom that the entire benefit of GDL results merely from decreasing or delaying licensure among young drivers... - Alcohol and motor vehicle-related deaths of children as passengers, pedestrians, and bicyclistsL H Margolis
School of Public Health and the Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 7400, USA
JAMA 283:2245-8. 2000..The overall percentage of motor vehicle deaths associated with alcohol consumption declined between 1991 and 1996, but the risk of death due to alcohol-related crashes for children warrants analysis...
Research Grants
- Secondary Analysis of Alcohol Boating DataRobert Foss; Fiscal Year: 2003..In addition, analyses will be conducted to determine whether environmental controls on alcohol (prohibiting alcohol at lakes; prohibiting alcohol in public parks/beaches) appears to affect drinking among boaters and PWC riders. ..