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Teenage Drivers and Fatal Crash Responsibility
Author(s) -
WILLIAMS ALLAN F.,
KARPF RONALD S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1984.tb00317.x
Subject(s) - crash , limiting , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , suicide prevention , poison control , psychology , demographic economics , demography , forensic engineering , environmental health , medicine , engineering , sociology , economics , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language
Data from national files on fatal crashes are analyzed to reveal that young drivers, especially sixteen and seventeen year olds, are more often responsible for fatal crashes than are older drivers. This is particularly the case for young males. Moreover, those killed in crashes for which teenagers are responsible are disproportionately people other than the teenaged drivers. A possible explanation for these facts lies in the “macho” culture of teenaged males. Potential countermeasures include those directed to limiting the driving exposure of teenagers as well as technological devices to moderate the injury‐producing forces in crashes.