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Jeff Michael
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
17 July 2017
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 135 (Monday, July 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32757-32758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14916]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA-2016-0038]
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping Requirements
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed collection of
information.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review. The ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected burden.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 15, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA-2016-0038 using any of the following methods:
Electronic submissions: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, M-30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. Fax: 1-(202) 493-2251.
Instructions: Each submission must include the Agency name and the
Docket number for this Notice. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov including any
personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Berning, Research Psychologist,
NHTSA-NPD-130, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., W44-237, Washington, DC
20590. Ms. Berning's phone number is 202-366-5587 and her email address
is amy.berning@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: None.
Title: Crash Risk Associated with Drug and Alcohol Use by Drivers
in Fatal and Serious Injury Crashes.
Form No.:
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Participants will include seriously or fatally injured
crash-involved drivers (n = 2,500) and matched non-crash-involved
drivers (n = 5,000). Crash-involved drivers will include seriously
injured drivers who are transported to a trauma center by emergency
medical services and fatally injured drivers who are transported
directly to the medical examiner's office. Sampling will occur at three
trauma centers and within the roadway catchment area served by the
trauma center(s). Non-crash-involved drivers will be matched to injured
drivers on crash day of the week, crash time of day, and crash
direction of travel.
Estimated Time per Participant: Surveys will be administered to
injured patients capable of responding and control participants to
collect demographic information, trip information, self-reported drug/
alcohol use, and opinions about driving while using alcohol/drugs.
Control participants will also be asked to provide a preliminary breath
test (PBT) sample. The expected average completion time for the survey,
and PBT sample for controls, is 10 minutes. Data collection will
include biological samples (i.e., blood) provided by both crash-
involved and non-crash-involved drivers. Collection of the biological
sample is expected to take approximately 10 minutes for control
participants and less than 1 minute for seriously/fatally injured
drivers. The total estimated time per participant is approximately 20
minutes.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,250 hours per year; for a
total of 2,500 across two years.
Frequency of Collection: Each participant will only respond to the
survey and biological sample requests a single time during the study
period.
Abstract: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) seeks to examine the risk of being severely injured in a motor
vehicle crash when drivers use licit and illicit drugs. This effort
will involve studying seriously or fatally injured drivers in crashes
and matched non-crash-involved drivers. Participants will include
seriously injured drivers who are transported to a trauma center by
emergency medical services and fatally injured drivers transported
directly to the medical examiner's office. This study will employ a
case-control design that matches two drivers not involved in a crash
for every crash-involved driver. Control drivers will be selected at or
near the location of the crash where a driver was seriously injured or
killed. Researchers will match control drivers on crash day of the
week, crash time of day, and crash direction of travel. Data collection
will include a biological sample (i.e., blood) from both crash-involved
and control drivers. Collection of samples from seriously injured
drivers will be subject to State and Trauma Center policies regarding
collection of fluid samples for research purposes. Samples from fatally
injured drivers will be collected in accord with State, Trauma Center,
and/or coroner/medical examiner policies. Self-report surveys will be
administered to injured patients capable of responding and control
participants to collect demographic information, reason for driving
trip, self-reported drug/alcohol use, and opinions about driving while
using alcohol/drugs. In the event a seriously injured driver is
unconscious, the researcher will, if the driver is capable of
responding, return later to collect the information. All participating
control drivers will be asked to respond to the survey items, provide a
preliminary breath test sample, and provide a biological sample.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: NHTSA's mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and
reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency
develops, promotes and implements educational, engineering and
enforcement programs with the goal of ending preventable tragedies and
reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and
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highway travel. In 2010 and 2011, NHTSA conducted the first large-scale
carefully controlled study in the U.S. designed to estimate the
relative crash risk associated with drug use by drivers. Using a case-
control design, researchers collected information from crash-involved
and non-crash involved drivers in Virginia Beach, Virginia. That effort
focused on acquiring data at crash sites and resulted in very few
seriously or fatally injured drivers entering the sample. As such, it
was not possible to assess the relationship between drug use and
serious crashes. Other studies have examined the prevalence of drugs in
seriously and fatally injured drivers, but none has used a case-control
design such as the one proposed in the current study that will allow
for an estimation of risk associated with drug use by drivers seriously
injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash. Using the case-control
approach in this manner will complete the relative risk assessment for
the full range of injury severities using comparable methodologies.
The large sample of seriously and fatally injured drivers gathered
by this project using a case-control methodology will lead to a better
understanding of the relative crash risk of drug involved driving. The
results of this project will assist NHTSA in determining how different
drug classes are related to driver safety which will help the Agency
provide guidance to the States and Federal Government as each considers
policies related to drugged driving.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. Section 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 7, 2017.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2017-14916 Filed 7-14-17; 8:45 am]
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