Department for Transport: How thirty years of drink drive communications saved almost 2,000 lives

This case reveals how communications changed drink driving behaviour in the UK over the course of 30 years, from 1979 to 2009, with an ongoing campaign divided into four major sections tackling attitudes towards drink driving, acceptability, denial and decision-making.

Department for Transport: How thirty years of drink drive communications saved almost 2,000 lives

Principal authors: Josh Bullmore and Steve Watkins, Leo Burnett

Summary

This is the story of how communications changed drink driving behaviour over the course of thirty years from 1979 to 2009.

Four successive periods of communication tackled drink driving attitudes, acceptability, denial and decisions.

This relentless pursuit of potential drink drivers saved almost 2,000 lives and prevented over 10,000 serious injuries.

The value of this to society is £3bn. We estimate that for periods two, three and four of the campaign, every £1 spent on...

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