CHILD PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LAW

A strong resemblance exists in psychological and legal approaches to the study of accidents: both emphasize individual human factors. However, traffic accidents and other types of accidents often occur in a social context. Although all accidents to some degree result from poor operations with the environment, pedestrian accidents invariably involve persons in interaction and this interaction itself comprises the behaviour (19): the interaction is not simply providing a social context for individual characteristics to be realized in behaviour. That being so, it is important that a broad approach to accidents be developed, based on both social and individual units of analysis. This approach must be interdisciplinary, recognizing that accidents can have individual, social, legal, medical, financial and engineering dimensions. The advantage of an epidemiological approach is that it provides a rigorous methodology which can incorporate multiple dimensions in a unified framework.

• Corporate Authors:

  Springer Verlag

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• Authors:
  • Chapman, A J
  • Sheehy, N P
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 177-181
• Serial:
  • Medicine and Law
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Children; Crash investigation; Epidemiology; Interdisciplinary studies; Laws; Methodology; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Psychological aspects; Social factors; Traffic crashes
• Old TRIS Terms: Interdisciplinary
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452235
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 659
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM