ROAD SAFETY EXPERTS DRIVE FAST

LIIKENNETURVALLISUUSASIANTUNTIJAT AJAVAT KOVAA

The driving speeds of the Finnish road-safety experts were measured when they were approaching a hotel where a national meeting on road safety was to be arranged. This time the topic of the meeting was speed and safety. The speeds were recorded with a Doppler radar in a hazardous junction of two main roads with a speed limit of 60 km/h. The experts' speeds were clearly faster than those of other traffic - including those who had travelled approximately the similar distance during their trip. Every expert exceeded the speed limit; half of them exceeded 15 km/h and the highest speed was 102 km/h. These results show that the knowledge of safe driving does not guarantee safe driving -just as we know from the earlier research that neither do greater skills. They support the pessimistic prediction concerning our possibilities to enchange safe driving with educational measures. (TRRL)

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  Helsinki University, Finland

  Traffic Research Unit, Ritarikatu 5
  Helsinki,   Finland 
• Authors:
  • SUMMALA, H
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• Finnish

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Reports
  • Issue Number: 15
  • Publisher: Helsinki University, Finland
  • ISSN: 0781-9935

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crimes; Drivers; Speed; Speed limits
• ITRD Terms: 1772: Driver; 1516: Offence; 5408: Speed; 624: Speed limit
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00492417
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• ISBN: 951-45-4626-1
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM