The connection between risky driving and involvement in fatal accidents

Rajalin, S

doi:10.1016/0001-4575(94)90017-5

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“…Other risky driving behaviours such as racing other vehicles for thrills, close following and illegal passing, have also been associated with increased risk in a number of cohort, case control and cross-sectional studies Wasielewski, 1982, 1983;Preusser et al, 1991;Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994;Rajalin, 1994;Harrison, 1997;Begg et al, 1999;Bell et al, 2000;Fergusson et al, 2003;Lam, 2003). Risky driving behaviours may be studied as 'acute' behaviours (a single incidence of a behaviour that is temporally related to the immediate risk of an injury crash) and/or 'habitual' (usual or ongoing) risky driving behaviours.…”

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Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury

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Ameratunga

Ivers

et al. 2005

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury

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Ameratunga

Ivers

et al. 2005

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Offenses accurately identify factors contributing to crash occurrence, but occur more frequently than crashes [2,3], making them an excellent proxy measure of crash risk.…”

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Patterns of Traffic Offenses from Adolescent Licensure into Early Young Adulthood

Bingham

Shope

Raghunathan

2006

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Purpose-This article examines adolescent psychosocial and problem behavior characteristics as predictors of traffic offenses from licensure to early young adulthood.Methods-Data for this study were from a school-based sample that was surveyed in 10th and 12th grades, and again in early young adulthood. In addition, state driver history records were obtained for each participant in the study and provided a complete traffic offense history.Results-Models adjusted for driving exposure showed varying patterns of prediction for men and women across three types of ticketed moving violations (offenses): minor offenses, serious offenses, and alcohol offenses. Although which predictors were significant varied across gender and type of offense, results suggested that more positive psychosocial adjustment predicted lower numbers, greater decreases, and a lower likelihood of increases in offenses from licensure through the early 20s.Conclusions-Based on this research, implications for intervention include providing parents with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively supervise their teens' driving during the first years of licensure. Also potentially important for their broad positive effects on problem behaviors, including problem driving, are programs that strengthen adolescents' bonds to conventional social institutions and increase their attachment to the people who represent those institutions. Future research should examine the longitudinal sequencing of associations among psychosocial and problem behavior variables, including problem driving. © 2006 Society for Adolescent Medicine. All rights reserved. KeywordsTeen drivers; Traffic offenses; Gender differences; High-risk driving; Problem behavior; Problem driving Drivers aged 15-20 years have higher rates of motor vehicle crashes (crashes) than adults, and crashes are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in this age group. In 2003, 15-20-year-olds accounted for 6.8% (12.5 million) of all drivers in the United States, but were drivers in 18% of all police-reported crashes and 14% of all fatal crashes, resulting in 3657 deaths and 308,000 non-fatal injuries [1]. A greater understanding of factors contributing to crashes is essential to increased driving safety among teens; however, the relative infrequency of crashes makes them difficult to study, and the information obtained from studying crashes, although important, does not directly address events and behaviors that precede and contribute to crashes. Many of these events and behaviors are ticketable traffic offenses. Although recorded offenses are a sub-sample of all traffic offenses committed, official traffic offenses are one of Relatively few longitudinal studies have examined offense patterns and their developmental precursors. Some evidence exists of a longitudinal association between problem behaviors and problem driving practices [4]. Using a developmental theoretical perspective, this study identified psychosocial and problem behavior predictors of offenses that occurred between licensu...

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“…Our study is therefore based on the assumption that there exists a particular group of collisions in which one of the drivers involved (the one who committed an infraction) is more responsible than the other driver(s), or is more likely to be the responsible driver than are the drivers who committed no infraction (15). Although the relationship between committing an infraction and the risk of being involved in traffic crashes has been well established (20)(21)(22), the assumption that the infractor is responsible for the collision may not be true. However, the approach we used in the present study makes such an association plausible: in a collision in which only one of the drivers committed an infraction and the other involved drivers did not, the former driver is much more likely to have caused the accident (15).…”

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Association of main driver-dependent risk factors with the risk of causing a vehicle collision in Spain, 1990–1999

Lardelli-Claret

Luna

Jiménez-Moleón

et al. 2003

Annals of Epidemiology

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PURPOSE:To assess the strength of association of main driver-dependent risk factors with the risk of causing a collision between vehicles in Spain, from 1990 to 1999. METHODS:The data for this paired-by-collision, case-control study were obtained from the Spanish Dirección General de Tráfico traffic crash database. The study included all 220,284 collisions involving two or more vehicles with four or more wheels, in which only one of the drivers involved committed an infraction. Infractor drivers comprised the case group; noninfractor drivers involved in the same collision were their corresponding paired controls. RESULTS: All driver-dependent factors were associated with the risk of causing a collision. The highest adjusted odds ratio estimates were obtained for sleepiness (64.35; CI, inappropriate speed (28.33; CI,, and driving under the influence of alcohol with a positive breath test (22.32; CI,). An increase in the number of years in possession of a driving license showed a protective effect, albeit the strength of the effect decreased as age increased. CONCLUSIONS: Our results emphasize the urgent need to implement strategies aimed mainly at controlling speeding, sleepiness, and alcohol consumption before driving-the main driver-dependent risk factors for causing a vehicle collision.

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The connection between risky driving and involvement in fatal accidents

Cited by 99 publications

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Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury

Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury

Patterns of Traffic Offenses from Adolescent Licensure into Early Young Adulthood

Association of main driver-dependent risk factors with the risk of causing a vehicle collision in Spain, 1990–1999

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