Samenvatting
This paper presents an overview of the description "accident proneness" as applied to random accident causes in driving. It charts the history of the theory of accident proneness with regard to Poisson distribution, and the ways in which this theory has subsequently been disregarded. The author believes that the search for the accident prone person was a search for a scapegoat, and that causes which cannot be clearly identified constitute a major factor in road traffic accidents. Conclusions based on simplistic modelling are seen as unreliable. For the covering abstract see ITRD E113725 (C 22328 CD-ROM).