POPULAR PERCEPTIONS OF SAFETY ARE OFTEN AT ODDS WITH REALITY

The National Safety Council's Highway Traffic Safety Division recently completed a study reported in the division's "Long-Range, Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan," currently in the form of a revised draft nearly 300 pages long. In addition to exploring the predicted social, economic, and political changes that are likely to shape highway safety in the 1990s and beyond, the plan includes suggested courses of action for dealing with these changes. This article looks at what the plan reveals about the prevailing public perceptions of highway safety, how they often fail to coincide with reality, and what changes in perception will be needed to suit the driving world of the future.

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• Authors:
  • Overend, R B
• Publication Date: 1985-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.
• Serial:
  • Traffic Safety (Chicago)
  • Volume: 85
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: National Safety Council
  • ISSN: 0041-0721

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway safety; Public opinion
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00495699
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-039 550
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM