Abstract
In the current issue of Archives of General Psychiatry (30:508-511, 1974), Shaffer and his colleagues cite other reports that indicate variations of opinion about accident-proneness as a factor in serious automobile accidents. At the same time, increasing emphasis has been given to the drinking as a major factor in causing traffic accidents. Accordingly, the authors conducted a psychological autopsy in all cases of male driver fatalities that occurred in Baltimore County between August 1968 and May 1972. In effect, the authors were seeking to validate the results of an earlier study in which they demonstrated that 25 driver fatality victims exhibited significantly more belligerence, negativism, general psychopathology, and hyperactivity than a normative population of men. 1 The present study, again numbering 25 men, differed from the first in two respects: only drivers of late-model cars (not more than three years old) were included, and there was somewhat less success
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