Citation

Connolly PL. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1965; 9: 102-112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1965, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

To those of us whose obligations and endeavors are directed toward the reduction of highway fatalities, it is most encouraging to know, to hear, and to read that it is now generally accepted that no single element in the highway-man-vehicle complex can be treated in an isolated manner, as has been done in the past. The isolated treatment of these three important functions, in an effort to gain improved highway safety, has been, I think, a result of the fact that the individual, the man in the street, you, your neighbor, and I, have considered that solving one of these problem elements would bring about a direct reduction of highway accidents. We know, however, that this is not the case, any more than you, as physicians, would feel that you could be sure of improving completely the health of one of your patients who had three distinct maladies by correcting only one of them. However, it is most timely to note that vision appears as the common denominator in the following description and definition of the vehicle operator, the vehicle, the highway, and the highway environment.