Traffic Safety
- Daniel Eisenberg, PhD, Reviewer
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University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ann Arbor
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by Leonard Evans, 444 pp, with illus, $99.50, ISBN 0-9754871-0-8, Bloomfield Hills, Mich, Science Serving Society, 2004.
Americans are unsafe drivers, and paradoxically, the work of Ralph Nader is largely to blame. So argues world-renowned traffic safety expert Leonard Evans in his comprehensive and compelling book Traffic Safety.
Evans’ work covers in remarkable detail the full range of important topics in traffic safety, from sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to drinking and driving to the latest safety technologies, but his chapter “The Dramatic Failure of U.S. Safety Policy” is the showstopper. There he presents statistics showing that the United States went from having the lowest traffic fatality rate among highly developed countries as recently as the 1970s to having a much higher rate than countries such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia as of 2002. The irony, he points out, is that the media and general public have been too …
