Surprise influences hindsight–foresight differences in temporal judgments of animated automobile accidents

Temporal relationship between automobile accidents and psychiatric hospitalization.

An Analysis of Automobile Accidents in Riyadh

A utomobile accidents have become one of the major problems in Saudi Arabia, just as in other parts of the world. Although Islamic rule prohibits half the population—women— from driving and forbids the consumption of alcohol—often cited as a factor in accidents in other count ries—t here were 24,594 traffic accidents involving 40,728 vehicles in Saudi Arabia in 1983. Death and injuries from aut...

Automobile Accidents, Suicide and Alcoholism

s u i c i d e o r attempted suicide is usually con­ sidered in terms of conscious and overt self-destructive action. However, data introduced in this paper suggests that many persons with self-destructive inclina­ tions may attempt to destroy or injure themselves through automobile accidents, and that these accidents are rarely perceived as suicidal attempts by either the driver or the public. ...

Injury to the liver in automobile accidents.

Drugs of abuse and fatal automobile accidents.

Routine drug testing of traffic fatalities has shown that about 21% of all victims have controlled, illegal substances in their body at the time of the incident. Although we cannot establish a relationship between drug levels and impairment of driving ability, the presence of these drugs in the body is per se evidence of an illegal act. This, with the potential that these drugs have for impairi...