CONTROL OF THE NEGLIGENT DRIVER, PART 3

THE SIX YEAR POST-ACTION DRIVING PERFORMANCE OF THE NEGLIGENT DRIVER IN CALIFORNIA IS REPORTED AND THE PERCENTAGE OF DRIVERS WHO EITHER REMAINED IN OR RETURNED TO THE NEGLIGENT DRIVER CATEGORY WAS EXAMINED. THE DRIVER PERIOD OF 4,034 NEGLIGENT DRIVERS WERE ANALYZED FOR THE SIX YEAR PERIOD AFTER THEIR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. DESCRIPTIVE VARIABLES WERE ANALYZED TO ARRIVE AT A PROFILE OF THE DRIVERS WHO REMAINED NEGLIGENT DRIVERS. THIS HARD-CORE NEGLIGENT DRIVER DOES NOT IMPROVE HIS DRIVING RECORD TO ANY APPRECIABLE DEGREE IN SPITE OF REPEATED DRIVER IMPROVEMENT CONTACTS. THE ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT ONE IN SIX NEGLIGENT DRIVERS REMAINED NEGLIGENT DURING THE FIRST THREE YEAR PERIOD AFTER ACTION AND ONE-FOURTH OF THESE REMAINED NEGLIGENT FOR THE ENTIRE SIX YEAR PERIOD. ONE IN THIRTEEN OF THE REMAINING FIVE-SIXTHS BECAME NEGLIGENT AGAIN DURING THE SECOND THREE YEARS AFTER ACTION. SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN DRIVING RECORD WAS FOUND FOR ENTIRE SAMPLE FOR SECOND THREE YEARS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE FIRST THREE YEARS AFTER ORIGINAL ACTION. THE ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT OF NEGLIGENT DRIVERS OVER-ALL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN FOR CALIFORNIA DRIVING POPULATION AND THE TREND OF HIGH SUBSEQUENT CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS COUNTS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH PRIOR COUNTS. THE PERCENTAGE OF MALE NEGLIGENT DRIVERS WHO REMAINED NEGLIGENT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN FEMALE NEGLIGENT DRIVERS. THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT AGE TREND FOR NEGLIGENT DRIVERS WHO REMAINED NEGLIGENT DRIVERS FOR THREE OR SIX YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ACTION. THE AVERAGE NEGLIGENT OPERATOR COUNT OF SUSPENDED OR REVOKED DRIVERS WAS ABOVE THE TOTAL SAMPLE AVERAGE FOR BOTH THREE YEAR POST-ACTION PERIODS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Hpr, B-2-1
• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Motor Vehicles

  P.O. Box 11828, 2415 1st Avenue
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95813
• Authors:
  • COPPIN, R S
  • Oldenbeek, G V
• Publication Date: 1966-8-15

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Analysis; Control; Crash rates; Driver improvement programs; Driver licensing; Driver performance; Drivers; Gender; Negligence; Personnel performance; Records management; Revocation; Suspensions; Traffic conviction
• Uncontrolled Terms: Convictions; Driver improvement; Records
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00219677
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 1 1994 12:00AM