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Sleet, David A. – Health Education Quarterly, 1984
This article suggests programs and educational approaches in which safety belt and child restraint use are promoted as preventive health practices. Health educators are encouraged to view these protective behaviors as part of a healthy life-style and promote occupant protection as a life-style behavior. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Behavior Modification, Child Welfare, Community Health Services

School Management, 1972
Discusses the new Federal Student Transportation Safety Standard 17. David H. Soule, designer and administrator of Standard 17, is interviewed. Topics covered are Federal aid, Federal-State-local relationship, bus driver training, and bus routing. (DN)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Bus Transportation, Driver Education, Educational Legislation

Williams, Allan F. – Journal of Safety Research, 2003
Reports on patterns of risk among teenage drivers through a review and synthesis of the literature. Varying patterns of risk form the basis for graduated licensing systems designed to promote low-risk and discourage high-risk driving. (Contains 6 tables, 13 figures, and 29 references.) (AUTHOR/WFA)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescent Behavior, Driver Education, Driving While Intoxicated

Gusfield, Joseph R. – Society, 1991
Examines multiple perspectives and multiple communities involved in the study of drinking and driving and traffic safety. Discusses the following aspects of the question: (1) informal social controls on the driving event; (2) contexts of traffic safety; (3) institutional aspects; (4) social movements; (5) the social and cultural environment; (6)…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Standards, Drinking
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Transportation Research Board. – 1989
While school buses transport more passengers per trip, the rate of occupant fatalities per mile driven for school buses is one-quarter that for passenger cars. Nevertheless, the public expects school districts and other school bus operators to take all reasonable precautions to protect children as they travel to and from school. Although a variety…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Bus Transportation, Design Requirements, Elementary Secondary Education

Ross, Sylvia P.; Seefeldt, Carol – Young Children, 1978
Discusses the developmental characteristics of young children which make them particularly vulnerable to traffic accidents and offers suggestions for parents and teachers on experience-based pedestrian safety education. (BF)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education
Mattox, John R., II – 1997
Young drivers across the United States represent a persistent traffic safety problem. Many interventions have been imposed on these drivers but few studies have evaluated the impact of these interventions on risky behaviors or traffic safety measures. To fill this gap, a review was undertaken to examine the most rigorous methodological evaluations…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescents, Driver Education, Driving While Intoxicated

Foss, Robert; Goodwin, Arthur – Journal of Safety Research, 2003
Addresses how to achieve the maximum benefit from graduated driver-licensing systems by ensuring that drivers comply with restrictions. States that although little is known about the involvement of law enforcement, there is potential for high-visibility law enforcement to encourage compliance. (Contains 1 figure and 22 references.) (AUTHOR/WFA)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescent Behavior, Driver Education, High School Students

McKnight, A. James; Peck, Raymond C. – Journal of Safety Research, 2003
Makes a case for four key elements of the provisional license phase of a graduated driver-licensing program: (1) extended learning; (2) early intervention; (3) contingent advancement; and (4) two-stage instruction. (Contains 1 table and 19 references.) (WFA)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescent Behavior, Driver Education, High School Students

Simons-Morton, Bruce G.; Hartos, Jessica L. – Journal of Safety Research, 2003
Discusses strategies to guide the parents of newly licensed young drivers. Describes some of the effects of the Checkpoints program in Connecticut and Maryland on traffic citations, motor-vehicle crashes, and family management of teenage driving. (Contains 1 figure and 42 references.) (WFA)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adolescent Behavior, Driver Education, High School Students
Yee, Darlene; Melichar, Joseph F. – 1994
The purpose of this research project at San Francisco State University was to develop and evaluate integrated assessment and intervention strategies to locate the "at risk" older driver and remediate deficits in knowledge or skills about driving and traffic safety. The identification of the "at risk" older driver should suggest…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Learning, Attitude Measures, Driver Education
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1967
THIS CHECKLIST IS AN EVALUATIVE TOOL FOR PLANNING PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT. PURPOSING TO STIMULATE THOUGHT AND ACTION ON PROBLEMS OF SAFETY EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS, IT IS DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE INSPECTIONS OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS FOR (1) SAFE CONDITIONS OF STRUCTURES, GROUNDS, AND EQUIPMENT, (2) SAFE PRACTICES, AND (3) OPTIMUM USE OF THESE SAFE PRACTICES IN…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Defense, Community Resources, Driver Education
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1974
Volume 9 of the 19-volume Highway Safety Program Manual (which provides guidance to State and local governments on preferred highway safety practices) focuses on identification and surveillance of accident locations. The purpose of the program, its specific objectives, and its relationship with other programs are explored. Federal authority in the…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Daugherty, Ronald D.; And Others – 1974
The purpose of the project, "Revision and Update of Traffic Safety Manpower Training Program Development Guide," was to develop the HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY MANPOWER FUNCTIONS GUIDE. This document provides an organizational schema illustrating the functions essential to be performed and the interrelationship of these functions to carry out…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Administrator Guides, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Hartman, Charles H. – 1973
The need for instructional programs for young, beginning motorcyclists is clearly indicated by statistics; an estimated 70 percent of motorcycle accidents involve inexperienced riders. Teaching the techniques of coexistence in driver education courses is also important since an estimated 62 percent of all auto-cycle accidents are caused by the…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Curriculum Development, Driver Education, Educational Needs