A TYPOLOGY OF ACCIDENT PRONENESS

A TYPOLOGY OF THE ACCIDENT PRONE INDIVUDUAL IS PROPOSED IN WHICH RISK AND EXPOSURE ARE EQUAL WITH THE PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC OF INDIVIDUALS, WHICH MAY MAKE THEM MORE LIABLE TO ACCIDENTS ARE CLASSIFIED AS FOLLOWS: (1) SHORT-TERM ACCIDENT PRONENESS - THE PRIMARY CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS GROUP IS THE FACT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS REACTING TO DISRUPTIVE INFLUENCES WHICH ORIGINATE PRIMARILY FROM EXTERNAL PRESSURES, AND ONCE THEY ARE RELIEVED, HE BEGINS TO RETURN TO HIS FORMER STATE OF ADJUSTMENT. HE MAY BE PLACED EITHER IN CRISIS REACTION (DIVORCE, FINANCIAL CRISIS ETC.) OR REACTIONS TO TRANSIENT CONDITIONS (SICKNESS, FATIGUE, ETC.). (2) LONG-TERM ACCIDENT PRONENESS - THIS INDIVIDUAL IS UNDER DISRUPTIVE INFLUENCES WHICH STEM LARGELY FROM INTERNAL SOURCES, AND WHILE THESE PRESSURES MAY RISE AND WANE, THEY ARE RELATIVELY CONSTANT AND ALWAYS A THREAT. THREE SUB-TYPES ARE: (1) CHARACTER CONDITIONS (DISRESPECT FOR AUTHORITY, SELFISH ETC.), (2) INTRA PSYCHIC CONDITIONS (NEUROTIC, PSYCHOTIC), AND (3) PHYSICAL CONDITIONS (SENILITY, FAILING EYESIGHT, UNTREATED DIABETES, ETC.). AN APPROACH TO ACCIDENT PRONENESS, IF PROPERLY MEASURED AT THE RIGHT TIME ALLOWS A PREDICTION OF ACCIDENT PRONENESS. /SRIS/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Los Angeles

  School of Medicine
  Los Angeles, CA  United States 
• Authors:
  • McGuire, F L
• Publication Date: 1967

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash types; High risk drivers; Human beings; Pressure; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Characteristics; External pressure
• Old TRIS Terms: Conditions; Reaction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223172
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: 9 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 5 1970 12:00AM