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- Title
Mistaken Assertions on Reducing Motor Vehicle Injury.
- Authors
Robertson, Leon S.
- Abstract
The article presents a comment on an article by L. Evans related to motor vehicle injury in the United States that appeared in a previous issue of the American Journal of Public Health. According to the author of this article, Evans' article on driver behavior includes mistaken assertions. He says that programs that change driver behavior are more effective than those that change vehicles and environment. In the opinion of the author, his study of vehicle modifications, belt use laws, and alcohol reductions indicates otherwise. When the coefficients on model year--specific changes in deaths per mile are multiplied by the relevant numbers of model years, and when the coefficients for changes in belt use and alcohol are multiplied by changes in those factors, the results indicate that far more reductions are due to vehicle modifications. Evans' claim that the differences in death rates among model years is attributable to vehicle age. Anti-regulation economists, to counter the author's original studies of regulation, according to him, created this myth. In his study, vehicle age was controlled in the regression.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TRAFFIC fatalities; AUTOMOBILE drivers; DRUGGED driving; AUTOMOBILE seat belts; VEHICLE models; EVANS, L.; DEATH rate; TRAFFIC safety; PUBLIC health
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.87.2.295