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ArticlePsychological science2017

Do Young Drivers Become Safer After Being Involved in a Collision?

Fearghal O'Brien, Joe Bible, Danping Liu, Bruce G Simons-Morton

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Article in Psychological science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. A Description-Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022
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  5. Driving in search of analyses.Statistics in medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fearghal O'Brien1 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.
Joe Bible1 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.
Danping Liu1 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.
Bruce G Simons-Morton1 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland.

Funding

Preventing Motor Vehicle Crashes Among Young DriversZIAHD001707 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SIMONS-MORTON, BRUCE G · 2009 to 2019
$4.0M
Preventing Motor Vehicle Crashes Among Young DriversZ01HD001707 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SIMONS-MORTON, BRUCE G · 1999 to 2008
$959k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD001707
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As drivers age, their risk of being involved in a car collision decreases. The present study investigated if this trend is due, in part, to some risky drivers having a collision early in their driving lives and subsequently reducing their risky driving after that negative experience. Accelerometers and video cameras were installed in the vehicles of 16- to 17-year-old drivers ( N = 254), allowing coders to measure the number of g-force events (i.e., events in which a threshold acceleration level was exceeded) per 1,000 miles and the number of collisions. Among the 41 participants who experienced a severe collision, the rate of g-force events dropped significantly in the 1st month after the collision, remained unchanged for the 2nd month, and increased significantly in the 3rd month. There were no changes in the rate of g-force events at comparable time points for the drivers not involved in a collision. Being involved in a collision led to a decrease in risky driving, but this may have been a temporary effect.

Indexed as

Accidents, TrafficAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorAutomobile DrivingFemaleHumansMalePsychomotor Performanceadolescentscollisioncrashg-force eventsrisky driving

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PMID28406372
PMCPMC5556688

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