In an effort to reduce the outbreak of highway crashes and citations observed among young males aged 18-19, countermeasure programs were conducted with seniors in ten suburban high schools including 'driving workshops' one day a week for six weeks under regular teachers trained by the authors. Records of 9,000 subjects including control drivers from paired school districts were followed over 18 months after treatment. Although average driving behavior did not change, young men were not indifferent to the workshops. Their accident rate rose during the first 12 months but dropped in months 13-18--particularly among an 'alienated' subgroup who had poor grades and were older than classmates, whose crash rate dropped to one-fourth the pre-treatment level. Men with good grades had stable records, and women showed neutral or adverse long-term responses. A separate program of police-sponsored assemblies had no visible effect on subsequent driving. (Author)


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    Title :

    Countermeasures for Young Drivers


    Contributors:
    D. C. Pelz (author) / S. H. Schuman (author)

    Publication date :

    1972


    Size :

    124 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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