This study has succeeded more in showing what accidents are not related to than what they are related to. In short, with respect to the population considered, we cannot single out the traffic offender, the poor student, the minority group member, the male, or the driver from a particular part of town as being much more likely than any other randomly selected population member to have had an accident. Since the present population consists only of individuals who elected driver training, it cannot necessarily be assumed that these same results would hold in the wider population. Many of these variables may be more highly related to accidents in the general population since individuals electing driver training are apt to be more conforming and generally less characterised by irresponsible behaviour which may lead to accidents.
Samenvatting