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Traffic safety and the driver

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Science Serving Society, 1991 - Traffic safety - 405 pages
  

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Page 17 - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind...
Page 162 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 305 - Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Page 177 - Fourteen persons were injured, some seriously. A careful inquiry showed that in nineteen of these accidents the drivers had used spirits within an hour or more of the disaster. The other six drivers were all moderate drinkers, but it was not ascertained whether they had used spirits preceding the accident. The author of this communication shows very clearly that the management of automobile wagons is far more dangerous for men who drink than the driving of locomotives on steel rails. Inebriates and...
Page 325 - O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.
Page 383 - Committee on Trauma Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, and Institute of Medicine. Injury in America: A Continuing Public Health Problem.
Page 145 - It would appear that the driving habits, and the high accident record, are simply one manifestation of a method of living that has been demonstrated in their personal lives. Truly it may be said that a man drives as he lives. If his personal life is marked by caution, tolerance, foresight, and consideration for others then he will drive in the same manner. If his personal life is devoid of these desirable characteristics then his driving will be characterized by aggressiveness and over a long period...
Page 50 - ... while the two vehicles are traveling in opposite directions. Rear-end. A collision in which one vehicle collides with the rear of another vehicle. Sideswipe. A collision in which the sides of both vehicles sustain minimal engagements. Most Harmful Event The event during a crash for a particular vehicle that is judged to have produced the greatest personal injury or property damage. Motorcycle A two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle designed to transport one or two people, including motorscooters,...
Page 249 - Kahane, CJ Fatality and injury reducing effectiveness of lap belts for back seat occupants.
Page 162 - For will not the words of thy report repeated slip out from thy mouth without thy knowing that thou hast uttered them? Falling down thy limbs will be broken, and no one will give thee a hand to help thee up.

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JSTOR: Traffic Safety and the Driver.
The most sociologically useful portions of Traffic Safety and the Driver address the effect of driver behavior on injury and fatality in car crashes. ...
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Preface
The material below is from Traffic Safety and the Driver by Leonard Evans, published March 1991. The same and additional topics are treated more ...
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Traffic Safety (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is more focused on public policy and countermeasures than the author’s 1991 book Traffic Safety and the Driver. Results derived from many disciplines, ...
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EVANS RESPONDS
Evans L. Traffic Safety and the Driver. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold; 1991. 2. Redelmeier DA, Tibshirani RJ, Evans L. Traffic-law enforcement and ...
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DSWW 2006 Employer Events
Dr. Evans has presented invited traffic-safety lectures in 29 countries, and written two books -- Traffic Safety (2004) and Traffic Safety and the Driver ...
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HOW WE DRIVE; Roads Are Safer; Cars Are Safer. Drivers? Forget It ...
But it is not a source of comfort to Leonard Evans, a former General Motors safety engineer and the author of the 1991 book ''Traffic Safety and the Driver. ...
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Journal of Safety Research : Distractions and the risk of car ...
L. Evans , Traffic safety and the driver. , Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1991). Evans, 1993. L. Evans , Comments on driver behavior and its role in ...
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American Scientist Online - Fueling the Debate
In his 1991 book Traffic Safety and the Driver, Dr. Evans indicates that the driver is one of the major factors in 94 percent of us traffic crashes, ...
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Prevention Institute: Aging and Mobility: Current Issues
According to Leonard Evans, former Research Scientist at General Motors and author of Traffic Safety and the Driver, two distinct issues are raised by the ...
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