Accident Research: Methods and Approaches

The three authors of this book are a public health physician with a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of sociology, and a member of the research staff of the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children. The closely packed volume is the third published by this Association, the other two beingBehavioral Approaches to Accident Research and the trenchant Passenger Car Design and Highway Safety. A more arresting title for this new and most important book might have been, "How to Think About Accidents and Their Cure." The logical processes which must be used, the importance of adequate statistical controls, the necessity for understanding and evaluating the psychological aspects, are all presented in a unique way. Many of the significant papers in accident research are republished, some as models and some as "examples." Using these as instructional material in methodology, the book, almost encyclopedic in scope,