CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLISIONS INVOLVING NON-IMPAIRED DRIVERS

Throughout the research literature and in the area of countermeasure development there has existed a marked propensity to evaluate impaired driver collisons as a distinct subset of the total collision population. Similarly, then, the collisions of non-impaired drivers represent an equally distinct, yet perhaps qualitatively discrete subpopulation. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the characteristics of the collisions of three different groups of non-impaired drivers, who are differentiated a priori on age-related factors. Various features of the collisions of these groups are examined, primarily to determine those instances in which a group is overrepresented on some factor. On the basis of such comparisons, "profiles" are derived for the collisions of inexperienced and aging non-impaired drivers. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 22nd Conference, July 10-14, 1978.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  P.O. Box 222
  Morton Grove, IL  United States  60053
• Authors:
  • Simpson, H M
  • Warren, R A
  • Page-Valin, L
• Conference:
  • 22nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine
  • Date: 1978-7-10 to 1978-7-14
• Publication Date: 1978

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 255-267
• Serial:
  • Volume: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crashes; Drivers; Knowledge
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Experience
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00190124
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 26 1979 12:00AM