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| Allan F WilliamsSummaryAffiliation: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Country: USA Publications
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The role of enforcement programs in increasing seat belt useAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 35:175-80. 2004..Enhanced penalties-in particular drivers license points-likely will be needed to reach hard-core nonusers...- Sixteen-year-old drivers in fatal crashes, United States, 2003Allan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 6:202-6. 2005..By looking at 16 year-olds nationally, the study does not constitute a direct test of the effect of graduated licensing laws per se... - Controversies and speed cameras: lessons learnt internationallyAmanda Delaney
Monash University Accident Research Centre, Building 70, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
J Public Health Policy 26:404-15. 2005..We describe the development of camera programs in Victoria and Britain and discuss the types of controversies that have arisen, the techniques used to address them, and what others can learn from this experience... 
Changes in self-regulatory driving among older drivers over timeKeli A Braitman
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 12:568-75. 2011....- Content analysis of television advertising for cars and minivans: 1983-1998Susan A Ferguson
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 35:825-31. 2003..Furthermore, manufacturers are missing an opportunity to promote vehicle safety, a feature that consumers have indicated is very important to them... - Views of US drivers about driving safetyAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
J Safety Res 34:491-4. 2003..To assess how drivers view dangers on the highway, what motivates them to drive safely, how they say they reduce their crash and injury risk, and how they rate their own driving skills... - Responsibility of drivers, by age and gender, for motor-vehicle crash deathsAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 34:527-31. 2003..Basing comparisons instead on the extent to which drivers in various age/gender groups are responsible for deaths (including themselves) in their crashes is more revealing of their overall contribution to the problem... 
Driver education renaissance?A F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Inj Prev 10:4-7. 2004- Are older drivers actually at higher risk of involvement in collisions resulting in deaths or non-fatal injuries among their passengers and other road users?E R Braver
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Inj Prev 10:27-32. 2004..This study revisited the question of driver age in relation to the risks of older drivers and others sharing the road with them, including pedestrians, passengers in the same vehicle, and occupants of other vehicles... - Types and characteristics of ramp-related motor vehicle crashes on urban interstate roadways in Northern VirginiaAnne T McCartt
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
J Safety Res 35:107-14. 2004.... - Tracking traffic citations through court adjudications to posting to public driver recordsAnne T McCartt
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 5:93-100. 2004..Recordkeeping inefficiencies and errors were less important factors in this study... - Effects of head restraint and seat redesign on neck injury risk in rear-end crashesCharles M Farmer
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:83-90. 2003..Estimated effects of Volvo's Whiplash Injury Prevention System and Toyota's Whiplash Injury Lessening design were based on smaller samples and were not statistically significant... - Characteristics of vehicle-animal crashes in which vehicle occupants are killedAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 6:56-9. 2005..Sixty-five percent of motorcyclists killed were not wearing helmets, and 60% of vehicle occupants killed were unbelted; many of these fatalities would not have occurred with proper protection... - Requiring belt use as part of a school parking permit program: does it increase students' belt use?Anne T McCartt
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 6:120-6. 2005..This study evaluated the effects of implementing a school belt policy... - Analysis of motor-vehicle crashes at stop signs in four US citiesRichard A Retting
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 34:485-9. 2003..The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding of the crashes that occur at stop signs and to identify potential countermeasures... - Drivers' assessment of Ford's belt reminder systemAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:358-62. 2003..The 7% of respondents who reported they used belts never or very occasionally were least responsive to the system. Overall, the Ford belt reminder system is being favorably received... - Effects of red light cameras on violations and crashes: a review of the international literatureRichard A Retting
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:17-23. 2003..Taken together the studies indicate that, overall, injury crashes, including rear-end collisions, were reduced by 25-30% as a result of camera enforcement... - Awareness of zero tolerance laws in three statesSusan A Ferguson
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
J Safety Res 33:293-9. 2002..The question is, do these differences in enforcement affect teenagers' knowledge and perception of these laws?.. - National reported patterns of driver cell phone use in the United StatesKeli A Braitman
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 11:543-8. 2010..To obtain detailed information on patterns of driver cell phone use, including how often drivers talk and text, the extent to which they use hands-free devices, and knowledge of and reaction to state cell phone laws... - Characteristics of speedersAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 37:227-32. 2006..To determine the characteristics of speeders, defined as drivers of vehicles traveling at least 15 mph above the posted speed limit and relatively faster than surrounding vehicles... - Hardcore drinking drivers and other contributors to the alcohol-impaired driving problem: need for a comprehensive approachAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 8:1-10. 2007..Understanding the hardcore drinking driver concept in the context of the alcohol-impaired driving problem... - Vehicles driven by teenagers in their first year of licensureAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 7:23-30. 2006..to determine access to vehicles, vehicle ownership and its correlates, and types of vehicles driven by teenagers during their first year of licensure... - Seat belt use among African Americans, Hispanics, and WhitesJoann K Wells
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:523-9. 2002..Socioeconomic and gender differences in belt use were also studied... - Responses of teenagers and their parents to California's graduated licensing systemAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:835-42. 2002..Overall the results indicate that the new licensing system is accepted favorably by teenagers and their parents and has substantially increased the types of behaviors that collectively should lead to crash and injury reductions... - Effect on fatality risk of changing from secondary to primary seat belt enforcementCharles M Farmer
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 36:189-94. 2005..States that have since removed this secondary enforcement restriction have reported increased seat belt use. The purpose of the present study was to estimate the effect of these law changes on driver fatality rates... - Drinking and driving among Mexican American and non-Hispanic white males in Long Beach, CaliforniaSusan A Ferguson
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:429-37. 2002.... - Teenage drivers: patterns of riskAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Suite 800, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA
J Safety Res 34:5-15. 2003..To determine patterns of risk among teenage drivers... - Contribution of the components of graduated licensing to crash reductionsAllan F Williams
J Safety Res 38:177-84. 2007..What is the contribution of the various components of graduated licensing to these reductions, and how can their effectiveness be increased?.. - Passenger effects on teenage driving and opportunities for reducing the risks of such travelAllan F Williams
J Safety Res 38:381-90. 2007..To review the research evidence concerning the effects of passengers on teenage driving and crash involvement, and to explore ways to reduce negative effects... - Alcohol-impaired driving and its consequences in the United States: the past 25 yearsAllan F Williams
J Safety Res 37:123-38. 2006..Progress in dealing with the alcohol-impaired driving problem in the United States during the past 25 years is addressed... - Changes in crash risk following re-timing of traffic signal change intervalsRichard A Retting
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:215-20. 2002.... - Commentary: next steps for graduated licensingAllan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 6:199-201. 2005 - Effects of daytime running lights on multiple-vehicle daylight crashes in the United StatesCharles M Farmer
Insurance Institute Highway Safety, Arlington, VA 22201 4751, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:197-203. 2002..On average, these vehicles were involved in 3.2% fewer multiple-vehicle crashes than vehicles without daytime running lights (P = 0.0074)... - Methods to reduce traffic crashes involving deer: what works and what does notJames H Hedlund
Highway Safety North, Ithaca, New York, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 5:122-31. 2004..Other methods using advanced technology require substantial additional research and evaluation... - Perceived risk and other predictors and correlates of teenagers' safety belt use during the first year of licensureMarie Claude Ouimet
Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7510, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 9:1-10. 2008..The second goal was to evaluate the importance of these variables in the prediction of teenagers' belt use during the first year of licensure, relative to other factors related to belt use, including demographics and substance use... - Graduated licensing for teens: why everybody's doing itChristine Branche
Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:146-9. 2002.... - An assessment of graduated licensing legislationAllan F Williams
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 47:533-5. 2003 - Encouraging compliance with graduated driver licensing restrictionsArthur H Goodwin
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, 730 Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd, Campus Box 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3430, USA
J Safety Res 37:343-51. 2006..Although graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs have reduced the high crash rates for 16-and 17-year-old drivers, research suggests that some teenagers fail to comply with restrictions on nighttime driving and carrying passengers... - Parents' views of teen driving risks, the role of parents, and how they plan to manage the risksAllan F Williams
Preusser Research Group, Inc. Trumbull, CT 06611, USA
J Safety Res 37:221-6. 2006..IMPACT ON INDUSTRY: The views and existing practices of parents need to be taken into account in deciding on the provisions of graduated licensing legislation and how to best ensure acceptance and compliance... - Why are sobriety checkpoints not widely adopted as an enforcement strategy in the United States?James C Fell
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705 3102, USA
Accid Anal Prev 35:897-902. 2003..Ways to overcome perceived barriers to checkpoint use are discussed... - Specific and long-term effects of Nova Scotia's graduated licensing programDaniel R Mayhew
Traffic Injury Research Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 4:91-7. 2003..Overall the data indicate substantial benefits of graduated licensing for 16 to 17-year-old beginners, but no benefits beyond the learner stage for older beginners... - Science and graduated licensingAllan F Williams
Bethesda MD, USA
J Safety Res 38:131. 2007 - Pedestrian crashes in Washington, DC and BaltimoreDavid F Preusser
Preusser Research Group, Inc, Trumbull, CT 06611, USA
Accid Anal Prev 34:703-10. 2002..Countermeasures to reduce the number of pedestrians hit by turning vehicles are discussed... - Underage drinking: frequency, consequences, and interventionsRalph W Hingson
Boston University School of Public Health, Center to Prevent Alcohol Problems Among Young People, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 5:228-36. 2004..To examine the frequency of underage drinking, driving after drinking and alcohol-related crashes, trends in these behaviors, and promising interventions...