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IT is well recognised that the problem of road accidents may be approached from various aspects, for example, the statistical and the engineering aspects. In this paper I consider the approach made by the psychologist—whose special training should render him expert in considering and advising on the part played by ‘the human factor’ which, it has been estimated, enters into eighty to ninety per cent of road accidents.
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Myers, C. The Psychological Approach to the Problem of Road Accidents. Nature 136, 740–742 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136740a0
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