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Peer reviewedRace, Kathryn E. H. – Journal of School Health, 1988
Safety education messages aimed at young children should be simple and emphasize direct how-to-cross instructions. "Left-right-left" search messages appear to be effective in counteracting common pedestrian errors of children. Included is a list of 28 child pedestrian safety materials, evaluated and selected from 274 submissions, by the…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Child Development, Child Safety, Elementary Education
Williams, Allan F.; Karpf, Ronald S. – 1982
According to data obtained for the year 1978 from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) and from state governments under contract to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, teenaged drivers (especially males) have much higher rates of fatal crash involvement than older drivers. In addition, teenaged drivers are more likely than…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accountability, Adolescents, Age
Download full textNational Transportation Safety Board (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1993
This report focuses on teenage drivers and drinking. The first topic discussed is youth accident experience. Vignettes of accidents are given, as well as national statistics on deaths involving teenage drivers. The next topic discussed is youth alcohol consumption. Statistics on percentage of youth who report using alcohol; comparison of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Driving While Intoxicated, State Legislation
Pasahow, Robert J. – 1987
This paper explains the most frequent psychological symptom that a car accident victim experiences and describes the nature of an anxiety and avoidant reaction to being in a car following an accident. The description of these responses is based on clinical and in-vivo observations from the treatment of more than 450 cases. Accident victim…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Emotional Response, Expectation
Williams, Allan F. – 1978
Young children and infants are especially vulnerable to serious injury in auto collisions because so few of them are protected by restraints or because legally required restraint devices are improperly used. Seat belt use laws tend to exclude children and child restraint legislation which exists includes gaps and shortcomings that limit its…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Legislation, Motor Vehicles
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1987
This study examined existing evaluations of drinking-age laws to determine the extent to which they provide empirical support for federal and state initiatives to change the legal drinking age. It specifically examined the effects that raising the minimum drinking age has had on traffic accidents, beverage alcohol consumption, driving after…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Groups, Alcoholic Beverages, Chronological Age
