Death on the job: The Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities

French, Mark; Gümüş, Gülçin

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113979

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“…Overall, 1800 traffic fatalities that occurred between 2004 and 2012 were identified from the USA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): 2.1% (N = 38) of all fatalities were characterized as both work-related and alcohol-impaired [ 23 ].…”

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A Systematic Review on the Role of Substance Consumption in Work-Related Road Traffic Crashes Reveals the Importance of Biopsychosocial Factors in Prevention

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Bufano

Zaccaro

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Objective: Since many jobs imply driving, a relevant part of all road traffic crashes (RTC) is related to work. Statistics considering all crashes suggest that they are significantly associated with consumption of substances, but the root causes are not yet clear. The objective of the present paper was to systematically review the scientific literature concerning substances consumption and work-related RTC. We queried the PubMed and Scopus electronic databases according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Articles were included if they reported all necessary data and survived a quality assessment. We selected a final sample of 30 articles from an initial pool of 7113. As hypothesized, taking any of the considered substances was found to increase the risk of work-related RTC. Descriptive statistics on work-related RTC showed a higher average positivity rate for medicines (14.8%) than for alcohol (3.02%) and drugs (0.84%). Interestingly, the impact of some medications found an unconvincing explanation in the mere occurrence of side effects, and it suggests that psychosocial and/or medical conditions could be better predictors of RTC. We therefore propose an intervention and prevention model that also considers biopsychosocial factors, for which further studies are needed in future research.

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A Systematic Review on the Role of Substance Consumption in Work-Related Road Traffic Crashes Reveals the Importance of Biopsychosocial Factors in Prevention

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Bufano

Zaccaro

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Behavioral Sciences

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“…On top of casualties, about 50 million people are injured in traffic every year. Next to this human tragedy, the economic loss associated with traffic accidents is estimated at 0.12% of global GDP (Chen et al, 2019 ), further contributing to the enormous societal cost of road traffic (French & Gumus, 2021 ). Mitigating the human and economic cost of road traffic is a priority for the WHO expressed in UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents (UN, 2015 ).…”

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“…Car size might therefore affect risk taking in a broad sense—including in ways that feed back into traffic risk, like is the case with substance abuse. Whether car size affects risk taking is therefore of substantial importance in a comprehensive approach to addressing road traffic’s societal cost and public health consequences (D’Onofrio et al, 2006 ; French & Gumus, 2021 ). In this report, we provide theoretical and empirical evidence for the “car cushion hypothesis,” the notion that bigger cars contribute to taking risk in and outside of driving contexts.…”

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The Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Data

Claus

Warlop

2022

J Consum Policy

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Car traffic and accidents involving cars create an enormous societal cost, particularly in terms of negative consequences for public health. Mitigating these effects is a daily concern for public and private institutions and people around the world. At least a subset of accidents is attributable to the amount of risk drivers allow in their driving and in related behaviour like mobile phone use or substance abuse. Our study looks at the effect of car size on risk taking. While literature highlights several behavioural effects of car size, the direction of causality of these effects is not always clear, and empirical evidence is lacking. Two behavioural and consequential studies support that car size affects risk taking in driving and that this increase in risk taking generalizes to other domains as well. Based on these results and in line with literature showing that social stability and security can affect financial risk taking, we propose the “car cushion hypothesis.” This hypothesis suggests that bigger cars make people feel more secure, which affects their behaviour in terms of generalized risk taking. We discuss policy implications aimed at contributing to reducing the societal and public health cost of car traffic.

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Traffic Fatalities and Population Density

Lagerlof

2023

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Death on the job: The Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

A Systematic Review on the Role of Substance Consumption in Work-Related Road Traffic Crashes Reveals the Importance of Biopsychosocial Factors in Prevention

A Systematic Review on the Role of Substance Consumption in Work-Related Road Traffic Crashes Reveals the Importance of Biopsychosocial Factors in Prevention

The Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Data

Traffic Fatalities and Population Density

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