The contribution of medical impairment to traffic accidents.

Author(s)
Waller, J.A.
Year
Abstract

The relatively limited number of studies about the role of medical impairment in the occurrence of traffic accidents suggests that clinically obvious impairment at the time of the accident from chronic conditions other than alcoholism is not a frequent accident cause. However, more subtle physiologic changes related to aging and chronic conditions appear to be a contributory factor in a substantial proportion of accidents. Acute conditions are not felt to be an important cause of accidents.

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A 2277 (In: A 2262)
Source

In: The prevention of highway injury : proceedings of a Symposium held April 19-21, 1967, p. 150

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