DRINKING DRIVER AND TRAFFIC SAFETY PROJECT. ANNUAL REPORT

THE DRINKING DRIVER CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION MODEL PROVED TO BE OF LIMITED PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY. AN EXPLORATION OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FATALITY DRINKING POPULATION AND THE CONVICTED DRUNK DRIVER POPULATION SUGGESTS THAT THE TWO POPULATIONS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT. A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF FATAL CRASH DRIVERS WAS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: CRIMINAL RECORD, TRAFFIC RECORD, AGE, OCCUPATION, AND CRASH LIABILITY SITUATION. /HSL/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089
• Authors:
  • Pollack, S
  • Berger, R M
  • Thomas, J M
  • Didenko, O R
  • Hyun, C
  • Bishop, J W
• Publication Date: 1970-7

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crashes; Crimes; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Liabilities; Mathematical models; Population; Records management; Traffic; Traffic conviction
• Uncontrolled Terms: Convictions; Records
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223469
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 29 1971 12:00AM