Impaired Driving

Develop and maintain data to identify correlations between impaired-driving crashes and citations, road type, corridor, region, county and community, and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission licensing data.

1. Use Crash Records Information System (CRIS) data to determine fatal and suspected serious injury crashes in communities with high probability for impaired-driving issues.
   (Participating organizations: Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth, TxDOT, TTI, metropolitan planning organizations [MPOs], and city and county agencies)
2. Through the use of existing licensing data available in the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s (TABC’s) Public Inquiry System, determine whether any correlations exist between those data and alcohol-related crash data. Also, mine data from prosecutions.
   (Participating organization: TABC)
3. Create geographic information system map overlays of data, where possible (depends on available data).
   (Participating organizations: Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth and TxDOT)
4. Identify partnerships to develop a list of information needs; identify communities that want to work on this issue; work in local communities to collect localized crash data with local police and sheriff departments; and use data collected to determine community variables that could impact the collected data related to special conditions, licensing requirements, community measures, and other determined factors.
   (Participating organization: Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth)
5. Determine areas where specific licensing data are not available through TABC’s Public Inquiry System that could have an impact on alcohol-related crashes to determine incomplete data sets.
   (Participating organizations: Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth and TABC)
6. Partner, where possible, with community groups and task forces to promote a comprehensive action plan to address and determine community hot spots. (Participating organization: Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth)

See above for each step.

• The difficulty of data sharing. TABC has restrictions about data sharing.
• Database compatibility. The database is not designed to export data.
• Festival and special event licenses done on paper in notebooks, not electronically. (Temporary licensing is issued to actual licensed establishments, so festival violations will not reflect locations accurately.)
• Identification of a champion.
• Developing and sustaining a coalition of participating agencies.
• Estimating real and meaningful correlations between establishments and crash locations.
• Developing sufficient and sustained funding for enforcement and education efforts.