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Shaoul, Jean – 1975
A road safety study was conducted by the University of Salford, Great Britain, in order to evaluate the effects of secondary level driver education in reducing the occurrence of accidents. It examines the feasibility of using accidents and traffic offenses as criteria for evaluating courses in driver education. To achieve this objective, 1,800…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation
Faber, Marilyn M. – Texas Child Care, 1997
Provides advice on teaching children safe pedestrian and bicycling skills to reduce accidents caused by mistakes made in crossing streets. Provides an interactive safe-walker's story, tips for walking safely, step-by-step instructions for safe street crossing, bicycle safety information, a quiz for safe biking, and guidelines to ensure a proper…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Bicycling, Child Health, Child Safety

Knight, Peter – Physics Education, 1975
Shows how physics can be used to analyze and prevent traffic accidents by determining critical speeds on curves, the behavior of motor cycles and stability of articulated vehicles, and the visibility that is needed to make a minor road junction safe. (MLH)
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Physics, Science Education
Driessen, Gerald – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from Traffic Safety", LXIX(March 1969), 16-18, 35-36.
Descriptors: Driver Education, Motor Vehicles, Safety Education, Traffic Accidents
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1992
This document presents witness' testimonies and supplemental materials from the congressional hearing called to examine the issue of automotive safety. In her opening statement, Chairwoman Patricia Schroeder briefly reviews statistics on traffic accidents and identifies the two major issues to be addressed in the hearing: failure to act by the…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Hearings, Motor Vehicles, Restraints (Vehicle Safety)

Zylman, Richard – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1975
Discusses the relationship between alcohol and fatal automobile crashes. Stresses the need for controlled studies in order to determine the correlation between drunk drivers and fatal accidents and to obtain dependable statistics on alcohol-related crashes. (BD)
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholism, Death, Drinking
McFarland, Ross A. – 1968
Human factors engineering is considered with regard to the design of safety factors for aviation and highway transportation equipment. Current trends and problem areas are identified for jet air transportation and for highway transportation. Suggested solutions to transportation safety problems are developed by applying the techniques of human…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Aviation Technology, Design Requirements, Human Factors Engineering
Ballard, David M. – School Business Affairs, 1990
Examines the characteristics of three types of motion detectors: Doppler radar, infrared, and ultrasonic wave, and how they are used on school buses to prevent students from being killed by their own school bus. Other safety devices cited are bus crossing arms and a camera monitor system. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Merchandise Information, School Buses
American School Board Journal, 1989
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended retiring as unsafe all school buses made before April 1, 1977. Buses built after that date--called "poststandard buses"--are likely to be in great demand for safety, economic, and legal reasons. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Costs, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Van Houten, Ron; Malenfant, J. E. Louis; Zhao, Nan; Ko, Byungkon; Van Houten, Jonathan – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
The Florida Department of Transportation used a series of changeable-message signs that functioned as freeway guide signs to divert traffic to Universal Theme Park via one of two eastbound exits based on traffic congestion at the first of the two exits. An examination of crashes along the entire route indicated a statistically significant increase…
Descriptors: Proximity, Motor Vehicles, Traffic Safety, Signs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1985
This guide, designed to accompany a videocassette of selected television spots is a compendium of specific drunk driving topics and issues for each of the major planning steps of a public information program. The guide is organized around these steps, which are (1) select program strategies, (2) select target audiences, (3) select media channels,…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescents, Adults, Alcohol Education
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Lucich, Mardi, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2004
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Traffic Safety
Stallard, Paul; Velleman, Richard; Salter, Emma; Howse, Imogen; Yule, William; Taylor, Gordon – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To determine whether an early intervention using a psychological debriefing format is effective in preventing psychological distress in child road traffic accident survivors. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Accident and Emergency Department, Royal United Hospital, Bath. Subjects: 158 children aged 7-18. Follow-up…
Descriptors: Accidents, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Early Intervention
Malfetti, James L.; Winter, Darlene J. – 1987
This document describes a study that used the "critical incident technique" to define and produce a descriptive classification of safe and unsafe driving behavior exhibited by adults and to organize these descriptions for use in older driver improvement courses and other educational activities. An introduction describes the study's…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Driver Education, Motor Vehicles, Observation
Utah State Dept. of Natural Resources, Salt Lake City. Div. of Parks and Recreation. – 1988
This document is intended to teach the riders of off-highway vehicles (OHVs) how to ride safely and legally on Utah's public lands and how to take care of the places in which they ride. OHVs are all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), off-highway motorcycles, and snowmobiles. Receiving a passing grade on the final test and in an associated course on driving…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Driver Education, Motor Vehicles, Outdoor Activities