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ACCIDENT mates PERGAMON PREVENTION Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) ITI-IX www.elsevier.com/locate/aap Volume 32, 2000 LIST OF CONTENTS NUMBER | Papers Does a threat appeal moderate reckless driving? A terror management theory perspective Orit Taubman Ben-Ari, Victor Florian and Mario Mikulincer 1 The effects on safety, time consumption and environment of large scale use of roundabouts in an urban area: a case study Christer Hydén and Andras Varhelyi 1] Sixteen years age limit for learner drivers in Sweden—an evaluation of safety effects Nils P. Gregersen, Hans-Yngve Berg, Inger Engstr6m, Sixten Nolén, Anders Nyberg and Per-Arne Rimm6 25 Which are the relevant costs and benefits of road safety measures designed for pedestrians and cyclists? Rune Elvik 37 A comparison of different ways to approximate time-to-line crossing (TLC) during car driving W. van Winsum, K.A. Brookhuis and D. de Waard 47 Hispanics, Blacks and Whites driving under the influence of alcohol: results from the 1995 National Alcohol Survey Raul Caetano and Catherine L. Clark 57 Regional mortality from motor vehicle traffic injury: relationships among place-of-occurrence, place-of-death, and place-of-residence Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Ming-Chih Chou and Meng-Chih Lee 65 Globalization in road safety: explaining the downward trend in road accident rates in a single country (Israel) Michael Beenstock and Dalit Gafni 71 Assessment of university students’ coping strategies and reasons for driving in high-risk drinking-driving situations Dale Kulick and Harold Rosenberg 85 Accident reduction factors and causal inference in traffic safety studies: a review Gary A. Davis 95 Exploration of the barriers to bicycle helmet use among 12 and 13 year old children Patricia R. Loubeau 111 Factors affecting the severity of motor vehicle traffic crashes involving elderly drivers in Ontario Jun Zhang, Joan Lindsay, Kathy Clarke, Glenn Robbins and Yang Mao 117 Preventing vehicle crashes with trains at grade crossings: the risk seeker challenge Kim Witte and William A. Donohue 127 Il Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) III-1X NUMBER 2 Papers Preface Frank A. Haight Head restraints—the neglected countermeasure Brian O'Neill Is a lifetime history of neck injury in a traffic collision associated with prevalent neck pain, headache and depressive symptomatology? Pierre Coté, J. David Cassidy and Linda Carroll Biomechanical assessment of soft tissue cervical spine disorders and expert opinion in low speed collisions Felix H. Walz and Markus H. Muser Neck injuries in car collisions — a review covering a possible injury mechanism and the development of a new rear-impact dummy Mats Y. Svensson, Ola Bostrém, Johan Davidsson, Hans-Arne Hansson, Yngve Haland, Per Lévsund, Anders Suneson and Anette Saljo Whiplash injury — are current head restraints doing their job? R. Minton, P. Murray, W. Stephenson and C.S.B. Galasko How crash severity in rear impacts influences short- and long-term consequences to the neck M. Krafft, A. Kullgren, C. Tingvall, O. Bostrom and R. Fredriksson Neck injuries in frontal impacts: influence of crash pulse characteristics on injury risk Anders Kullgren, Maria Krafft, Ake Nygren and Claes Tingvall The relationship between clinical and kinematic responses from human subject testing in rear-end automobile collisions Gunter P. Siegmund, John R. Brault and Jeffrey B. Wheeler Seat back and head restraint response during low-speed rear-end automobile collisions Jonathan M. Lawrence and Gunter P. Siegmund Role of awareness in head-neck acceleration in low velocity rear-end impacts Shrawan Kumar, Yogesh Narayan and Tyler Amell Influence of seat characteristics on occupant motion in low-speed rear impacts Yoichi Watanabe, Hideaki Ichikawa, Osamu Kayama, Koshiro Ono, Koji Kaneoka and Satoshi Inami Pressure measurements in the spinal canal of post-mortem human subjects during rear-end impact and correlation of results to the neck injury criterion Arno Eichberger, Mario Darok, Hermann Steffan, Peter E. Leinzinger, Ola Bostrom and Mats Y. Svensson A new mathematical neck model for a low-velocity rear-end impact dummy: evaluation of components influencing head kinematics Astrid Linder Road safety engineering: an effective tool in the fight against whiplash injuries Frank Navin, Sany Zein and Emmanuel Felipe Injury surveillance in Victoria, Australia: developing comprehensive injury incidence estimates Wendy L. Watson and Joan Ozanne-Smith Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) III-IX V Neck pain and head restraint position relative to the driver’s head in rear-end collisions Janella F. Chapline, Susan A. Ferguson, Robert P. Lillis, Adrian K. Lund and Allan F. Williams 287 Report investigating the importance of head restraint positioning in reducing neck injury in rear impact Jason Maher 299 WHIPS -—- Volvo’s whiplash protection study Lotta Jakobsson, Bjorn Lundell, Hans Norin and Irene Isaksson-Hellman 307 Comparison of car seats in low speed rear-end impacts using the BioRID dummy and the new neck injury criterion (NIC) Ola Bostrom, Rikard Fredriksson, Yngve Haland, Lotta Jakobsson, Maria Krafft, Per Lovsund, Markus H. Muser and Mats Y. Svensson 321 NUMBER 3 Part Special Issue (pp. 329-472) Domestic and Personal Injury Guest Editor: Gordon Hayward Papers Domestic and personal accidents. Prevention in the absence of professional supervision Gordon Hayward 329 Consumer affairs and the valuation of safety David J. Ball 337 Near miss and minor injury information — can it be used to plan and evaluate injury prevention programmes? Patricia Marsh and Denise Kendrick 345 Burn injuries in The Netherlands Paul C. den Hertog, Fons A.C.M. Blankendaal and Simone M. ten Hag 355 Risk perception in consumer product use M.F. Weegels and H. Kanis 365 Validating recall of falls by older people N. Peel 371 Epidemiology of personal watercraft-related injury on Arkansas waterways, 1994-1997; identifying priorities for prevention Ches S. Jones 373 Risk factors for severe injuries associated with falls from playground equipment Colin Macarthur, Xiaohan Hu, David E. Wesson and Patricia C. Parkin 377 What you don’t know can hurt you: household products and events S. David Leonard and Michael S. Wogalter 383 Stay on Your Feet Safety Walks Group Judith Powell, David Wilkins, Janelle Leiper and Chris Gillam 389 Analysis of climbing accidents R. Schad 391 VI Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) III-IX Smoking as a risk factor for accident death: a meta-analysis of cohort studies Bruce N. Leistikow, Daniel C. Martin, Jeffrey Jacobs, David M. Rocke and Kyle Noderer Burn properties of fabrics and garments worn in India S. Bawa Bhalla, S.R. Kale and D. Mohan Karate injuries in children and adolescents Merrilee N. Zetaruk, Mariona A. Violan, David Zurakowski and Lyle J. Micheli An impact evaluation of a falls prevention program among older people Hamish A. Deery, Lesley M. Day and Brian N. Fildes Diagnosis and monetary quantification of occupational injuries by indices related to human capital loss: analysis of a steel company as an illustration Jau-Jiuan Sheu, Jing-Shiang Hwang and Jung-Der Wang Multiple attribute entropy classification of school-age injuries Ariana Vorko and Franjo Jovi¢ Pedestrians on slippery surfaces during winter— methods to describe the problems and practical tests of anti-skid devices Gunvor Gard and Glenn Lundborg The community safety approach in Falun, Sweden — is it possible to characterise the most effective prevention endeavours and how long-lasting are the results? Bo Bjerre and Lothar Schelp Erratum NUMBER 4 Papers Exploring the relationship between alcohol and the driver characteristics in motor vehicle accidents Mohamed A. Abdel-Aty and Hassan T. Abdelwahab The relationship of alcohol safety laws to drinking drivers in fatal crashes Robert B. Voas, A. Scott Tippetts and James Fell Factors associated with falling asleep at the wheel among long-distance truck drivers Anne T. McCartt, John W. Rohrbaugh, Mark C. Hammer and Sandra Z. Fuller Characterological, situational, and behavioral risk factors for motor vehicle accidents: a prospective examination Fran H. Norris, B. Alex Matthews and Jasmin K. Riad Evaluation of photo radar program in British Columbia Greg Chen, Jean Wilson, Wayne Meckle and Peter Cooper Effect of Florida’s graduated licensing program on the crash rate of teenage drivers Robert G. Ulmer, David F. Preusser, Allan F. Williams, Susan A. Ferguson and Charles M. Farmer Fatalities to occupants of cargo areas of pickup trucks Craig L. Anderson, Phyllis F. Agran, Diane G. Winn and Sander Greenland Injury trends of passenger car drivers in frontal crashes in the USA Peter G. Martin, Jeff R. Crandall and Walter D. Pilkey Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) ITI-IX The effectiveness of the ‘ride-bright’ legislation for motorcycles in Singapore Wu Yuan Head injuries to bicyclists and the New Zealand bicycle helmet law Paul Scuffham, Jonathan Alsop, Colin Cryer and John D. Langley Influence of drivers’ comprehension of posted signs on their safety related characteristics Hashim Al-Madani Alcohol use in relation to driving records among injured bicyclists Guohua Li, Cyrus Shahpar, Carl A. Soderstrom and Susan P. Baker An expert judgment model applied to estimating the safety effect of a bicycle facility Lars Leden, Per Garder and Urho Pulkkinen Recent European research on older drivers Liisa Hakamies-Blomqvist and Bjorn Peters Short communication The shift to and from daylight savings time and motor vehicle crashes Mats Lambe and Peter Cummings NUMBER 5 Papers The prevalence of alcohol, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines and stimulants amongst injured drivers and their role in driver culpability: Part I: the prevalence of drug use in drivers, and characteristics of the drug-positive group Marie C. Longo, Christine E. Hunter, Robert J. Lokan, Jason M. White and Michael A. White The prevalence of alcohol, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines and stimulants amongst injured drivers and their role in driver culpability: Part II: the relationship between drug prevalence and drug concentration, and driver culpability Marie C. Longo, Christine E. Hunter, Robert J. Lokan, Jason M. White and Michael A. White Modeling traffic accident occurrence and involvement Mohamed A. Abdel-Aty and A. Essam Radwan Traffic accident reduction by monitoring driver behaviour with in-car data recorders Peter I.J. Wouters and John M.J. Bos Demographic and environmental correlates of pedestrian injury collisions: a spatial analysis Elizabeth A. LaScala, Daniel Gerber and Paul J. Gruenewald Motorcycle engine size and risk of moderate to fatal injury from a motorcycle crash John Langley, Bernadette Mullin, Rodney Jackson and Robyn Norton Detecting intoxicated drivers in Germany -— estimating the effectiveness of police tests Mark Vollrath Venturesomeness and extraversion as correlates of juvenile drivers’ traffic violations Walter Renner and Franz-Georg Anderle Economic evaluation of traffic safety measures for transport companies Sytze A. Rienstra, Piet Rietveld and Joke E. Lindeijer Vill Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) III-IX Drink driving as a social problem: comparing the attitudes and knowledge of drink driving offenders and the general community Scott Baum Monitoring performance of road safety programmes in New Zealand Jagadish Guria and Kelly Mara Short communication Risk factors in highway traffic accidents: a case control study Martha Hijar, Carlos Carrillo, Mario Flores, Rafael Anaya and Victoria Lopez Bibliographic section NUMBER 6 Papers Civil liability, criminal law, and other policies and alcohol-related motor vehicle fatalities in the United States: 1984-1995 Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Frank A. Sloan, Emily Stout and Lan Liang Visual risk factors for driving difficulty among older drivers Gerald McGwin, Jr, Victoria Chapman and Cynthia Owsley Non-occupational ladder and scaffold fall injuries Christian Faergemann and Lars B. Larsen Elderly drivers and their accidents: the Aging Driver Questionnaire Dianne Parker, Lorraine McDonald, Patrick Rabbitt and Paul Sutcliffe The safety climate and its relationship to safety practices, safety of the work environment and occupational accidents in eight wood-processing companies Unto Varonen and Markku Mattila Complementing police road-crash records with trauma registry data — an initial evaluation Derrick G. Lopez, Diana L. Rosman, George A. Jelinek, Garry J. Wilkes and Peter C. Sprivulis Knee injuries in motor vehicle collisions: a study of the National Accident Sampling System database for the years 1979-1995 Theresa Atkinson and Patrick Atkinson Explaining two-lane highway crash rates using land use and hourly exposure John N. Ivan, Chunyan Wang and Nelson R. Bernardo Uncertainty in incident rates for trucks carrying dangerous goods Nancy P. Button and Park M. Reilly Drink driving and traffic accidents in young people L. John Horwood and David M. Fergusson Modelling the factors related to the seatbelt use by the young drivers of Athens Joannes El. Chliaoutakis, Charalambos Gnardellis, Ismini Drakou, Christina Darviri and Vickey Sboukis Volume 32 Contents | Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 (2000) III-1X IX Traffic accident statistics and risk perceptions in Japan and the United States Hiroshi Hayakawa, Paul S. Fischbeck and Baruch Fischhoff 827 Short communications Trends in driver and front-right passenger safety belt use in Michigan: 1984-1998 David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar and Michelle L. Olk 837 Road safety issues in remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia L. Rina Cercarelli, G. Anthony Ryan, Matthew W. Knuiman and Robert J. Donovan 845 How much do road accidents cost the national economy? Rune Elvik 849