AGGRESSIVE DRIVING

IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT AGGRESSIVE DRIVING IS A COMMON ASPECT OF EVERYDAY LIFE, A SIMPLE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED: AN OBSERVER DROVE 24 MILES DAILY FOR 34 DAYS, MAKING OBSERVATIONS UNTIL 100 INSTANCES OF AGGRESSIVE DRIVING HAD BEEN OBSERVED. THE RESULTS ARE QUITE INTERESTING: NOT ONE SINGLE ACCIDENT WAS SEEN TO OCCUR AS A RESULT OF AGGRESSIVE DRIVING AND NOT ONE INSTANCE OF COUNTER-AGGRESSION WAS OBSERVED. THUS, IT APPEARS THAT IN THE PHENOMENON OF AGGRESSIVE DRIVING, TWO COMPONENTS ARE INVOLVED: THE ACTION OF THE AGGRESOR, AND THE ACTION OF THE THREATENED BY THE AGGRESSOR. IN ALL INSTANCES, THE THREATENED DRIVER TOOK EVASIVE ACTION. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • VOL 73 PP 64, 66-7
• Corporate Authors:

  Pennsylvania Medicine

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• Authors:
  • Hammett, V O
• Publication Date: 1970-1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Defensive drivers; Driver performance; Drivers; Driving; Personnel performance; Reaction time; Reckless drivers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223846
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 24 1972 12:00AM