Title

The Tale Of A Two-Faced Tiger

Keywords

Accidents; Design; Kinetic energy; Slips and falls; Uncontrolled release; Vehicles

Abstract

In the National Safety Council's Injury Facts, the most prevalent cause of accidental death from birth until age 78 is motor vehicle collisions.After 78, this cause changes to slips and falls. Initially, these two categories seem obviously distinct, but here I claim they are not. I propose that because transportation is only a form of augmented locomotion, road traffic accidents are errors embedded in this locomotion process just as are slips and falls. Thus, each distinct accident form results from behavioral response. I relate this unification to Haddon's notion of accidents as encounters with uncontrolled energy (ecological "tigers"). I seek to show that traffic accidents and slips and falls are thus two faces of the same tiger. Copyright 2005 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Publication Title

Ergonomics in Design

Volume

13

Issue

3

Number of Pages

23-29

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/106480460501300306

Socpus ID

33646180056 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33646180056

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