@article{ref1,
title="A method to assess accident psychological severity in drivers",
journal="Transportation research procedia",
year="2018",
author="Pegin, Pavel and Pegina, Olga",
volume="36",
number="",
pages="562-566",
abstract="The article reviews issues of maintenance and improvement of driver's reliability after a road accident. Due to psychological traumas caused by road accidents, drivers may constantly experience fear or fright. As a result, when driving, the driver is slow. According to drivers' test results, individual psychological severity regarding the accident forms in a person involved in such accident, which is conditioned by its intensity and duration. The post-accident syndrome (individual psychological severity) depends on physiological and psychological capabilities of a particular driver. A new method of assessing psychological severity of accidents, based on long-term observations of drivers and other people involved in road accidents, is proposed. A new interpretation of the common definition of the post-accident syndrome is given and criteria of this concept are determined. A method and a sequence of escaping the post-accident syndrome by those involved in road accidents is formulated. Based on the statistical analysis, a classification of post-accident syndrome types is suggested. A new concept &quot;psychological severity of an accident&quot; is proposed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2352-1465",
doi="10.1016/j.trpro.2018.12.152",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2018.12.152"
}