Citation

Simpson HM, Warren RA, Page-Valin L. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1978; 22(1): 255-266.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

Throughout the research literature and in the area of countermeasure development there has existed a marked propensity to evaluate impaired-driver collisions as a distinct subset of the total collision population. Similarly, then, the collisions of non-impaired drivers represent an equally distant, yet perhaps qualitatively discrete sub-population. 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.