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Tippetts, A. Scott; Becker, Les R.; and McKnight, A. Scott Report (2008) Riders Helping Riders (RHR) is an instructional program that encourages motorcyclists to intervene with their motorcyclist peers to prevent them from drinking and riding. The program is based on focus group research, which found that riders consider themselves to be united by an interest in riding and by a willingness to help other riders in need. A sense of individualism, however, limits the extent to which riders are willing to intervene in drinking and riding. RHR is intended to convince motorcyclists that an impaired rider needs their help and that they are in the best position to provide help. The program provides a "toolkit" of techniques for separating drinking from riding, discouraging riders from becoming impaired, recognizing impairment, and discouraging impaired riders from riding. An optional role-playing module is included. At the end of the class, students are asked to sign a pledge to do their best to help an impaired rider live to ride another day. RHR was developed with the assistance of instructors from the South Carolina Rider Education Program and pilot-tested by instructors of Georgia's Department of Driver Services, Motorcycle Safety Program. This is Volume I of the report; it describes the development and evaluation of the program and discuses the findings. Volume II is the classroom instructor manual, and Volume III is the classroom student guide.
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