What surviving drivers learn from a fatal road accident

Rajalin, S; Summala, Heikki

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(96)00081-4

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“…Summala, 1988;Bargh, 1997;Ouellette and Wood, 1998;Aarts and Dijksterhuis, 2000). Not even a fatal accident changed survived drivers' usual speeding behavior in our before-after study (Rajalin and Summala, 1997).…”

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Risky driving and recorded driving offences: A 24-year follow-up study

Summala¹,

Rajalin²,

Radun³

2014

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Risky driving and recorded driving offences: A 24-year follow-up study

Summala¹,

Rajalin²,

Radun³

2014

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…First, leaving may not be fully voluntary, but the result of conflict with managers and supervisors perhaps due to the drivers' crash rates (see Probst & Brubaker, 2001, for a result of this type). Second, drivers may find repeated crash involvement to be an unpleasant experience and affect their willingness to be a driver, although this would seem to be an unlikely explanation, as drivers do not appear to change their driving behaviour due to crashes (af Wåhlberg, 2012a; but see also Rajalin & Summala, 1997). However, drivers with less capability for professional driving may find their work more stressful and tiring, and have more crashes, i.e.…”

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Bus drivers who leave; were they more crash-involved?

Wåhlberg

Dorn

2019

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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Turnover is usually considered to be a safety problem for companies, but can also be an advantage, if those who leave are less safe than those who stay. This problem has rarely been investigated for bus drivers, where the financial and human costs of crashes are high. This study tested whether bus drivers who left their jobs had more crashes than those who remained, using company records. Several analyses were run, using crashes per number of days worked, the absolute number of crashes in a specific time period, as well as the ratio of culpable to nonculpable crashes. Drivers who left the company, except those who retired, had forty percent more crashes than those who stayed, but were also less experienced, which explained part of the difference. Results were similar regardless of analysis performed. Turnover may be a problem for bus companies due to the costs of recruitment and training, but this study suggests that there are benefits for turnover too. Fleet-based companies would probably gain more by improving driver selection methods than trying to retain drivers with a high crash rate, as a natural selection process seems to lead to the safest drivers staying with the company.

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“…Sin perjuicio de ello, esto genera preguntas sobre la función o efectos de una experiencia de accidente de tránsito encomportamientos de tránsito subsecuentes. Existe alguna literatura que muestra que haber estado involucrado en accidente de tránsito tiene un efecto de moderación conductual posterior solo temporal, relativamente breve, de no más de seis meses, luego del cual las personas regresan a su comportamiento -arriesgado-habitual (Rajalin y Summala, 1997). Adicionalmente, también habría que afinar el instrumento utilizado respecto de la información relativa a accidentes de tránsito, para distinguir con mayor precisión el tiempo transcurrido, la gravedad, el rol protagónico o no, y otras características del evento que pudieran resultar eventualmente diferenciadoras de efectos posibles y la duración de éstos.…”

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Aportaciones a las ciencias de la salud: El comportamiento peatonal arriesgado de chilenos y brasileros

2014

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ResumenLos peatones son causantes y víctimas de accidentes de tránsito en el mundo y muy especialmente en América latina. Un modelo de comportamiento riesgoso en conductores es aplicado a peatones en dos países del Cono Sur de América: Brasil con la mayor tasa de mortalidad por accidentes de tránsito, y Chile, la menor. Una muestra accidental -463 participantes, 223 chilenos y 240 brasileros, de 17 a 40 años de edad-respondió la Escala de Comportamiento Peatonal controlándose sexo, edad, licencia de conducir y participación en accidentes de tránsito. Contribuyendo a explicar la contrastante mortalidad, los chilenos realizan significativamente menos transgresiones, ligeramente menos errores y lapsus al transitar por la ciudad, que los brasileños. Los hombres de ambos países son más transgresores que las mujeres. Se discute la utilidad del modelo utilizado y de los resultados, entregándose algunas recomendaciones para la salud pública en este ámbito. Palabras clave: comportamiento peatonal, transgresión y salud pública. AbstractPedestrians are causative and victims of traffic accidents in the world and very especially in Latin America. A model originally built for drivers risk behavior is applied to pedestrians in two contrasting countries in the Southern Cone of America: Brazil has the highest mortality rate for traffic accidents and Chile the lowest. An accidental sample -463 participants, 223 Chileans and 240 Brazilians of 17 to 40 years of age-, answered an instrument containing the scale of pedestrian behavior (ECP, 1999) and information relating to sex, age, licensed drivers and participation in traffic accidents was collected. Contributing to explain the contrasting mortality, Chileans reported to perform significantly less pedestrian's transgressions, fewer errors and lapses than Brazilian pedestrians. Men in both countries are more transgressors than women. We discuss the utility Correspondencia:

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What surviving drivers learn from a fatal road accident

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Risky driving and recorded driving offences: A 24-year follow-up study

Risky driving and recorded driving offences: A 24-year follow-up study

Bus drivers who leave; were they more crash-involved?

Aportaciones a las ciencias de la salud: El comportamiento peatonal arriesgado de chilenos y brasileros

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