Abstract
ACCIDENT proneness is a<i>personal idiosyncrasy</i>that predisposes certain individuals to a relatively high accident rate. The "diagnosis" is based on finding a high concentration of certain characteristics that have a high predictive value for the occurrence of accidents.<sup>1</sup>These indicators suggest considerable psychopathology: accidents among such individuals are not unplanned or unintentional on the subconscious level.<sup>1</sup> The following characteristics have been described as high in incidence among accident-prone individuals: youth (especially among males); early exposure to injury, violence, and domestic strife; severely authoritarian parents or parent figures; loss of parents; childhood nail biting, enuresis, or truancy; a tendency to lie and steal; and a history of many accidents in childhood. As adults, they tend to have childless marriages or small families, sexual conflicts, a high divorce rate, frequent changes in many types of jobs, adventurousness, irresponsibility, and aggressiveness. Under stress, they are often impulsive, make up their
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