This report reviews the accident i.nd violation histories of the accident-involved drivers who paicipated in 'Experimental Case Studies of Traffic Accidents.' In reviewing these histories, three goals arc in mind. First, it is desirable to know the kind of official records of traffic law violations and automobile accidents that these drivers possessed before becoming involved in accidents. Put another way, would it have been possible to identify these drivers as likely to become involved in accidents from a knowledge of their official records, prior to the occurrence of the accidents? A second purpose of the report is the omparison of the driving histories established from official records with similar data obtained from interviews, in order to obtain clues as to the reliability of each type of data. The third purpose is a speculative search for reasons as to discrepancies between the official and reported histories. (Author/publisher)
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