Bus driver accident record: the return of accident proneness

Long-term prediction of traffic accident record from bus driver celeration behavior.

Driver celeration (speed change) behavior of bus drivers measured a number of times was used to predict their culpable accidents over increasing time periods. It was found that predictive power was considerable (>.30 correlation) over 5 years of time with aggregated celeration (mean of repeated measurements) as independent variables, and there were also indications that power reached even furth...

Accident Proneness: A Research Review

Accident-proneness in Attempted Suicide and in Automobile Accident Victims.

The Concept of Accident Proneness: a Review.

The term accident proneness was coined by psychological research workers in 1926. Since then its concept-that certain individuals are always more likely than others to sustain accidents, even though exposed to equal risk-has been questioned but seldom seriously challenged. This article describes much of the work and theory on which this concept is based, details the difficulties encountered in ...

The illusive phenomena in accident proneness.