
@article{ref1,
title="Street accidents--New York City",
journal="Publications of the American Statistical Association",
year="1913",
author="Clowes, E. S.",
volume="13",
number="102",
pages="449-456",
abstract="This paper deals with street accidents in New York. Last fall I took charge of the statistical work of the national highways protecting society and I have, in the interval, learned enough about street accidents to realize that the problem of their control is a very complicated one-not to be solved in any fashion, but only by the force of an aroused and intelligent public sentiment, expressing itself isn't definite and comprehensive regulations and laws, administered with common sense and impartially enforced....   <p>Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in <i>Injury Prevention</i> (2011),  doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.<br><br>  Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: &quot;Burnham-Accident-Prone&quot;.</p><p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1522-5437",
doi="10.2307/2964842",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2964842"
}