London incidents

Wed Jul 13 02:45:32 UTC 2005

On Jul 12, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Crist Clark wrote:

> As for the "inattentive-risky driver" and "agitated driver"  
> theories, the
> researchers took (tried to take) this into acount by using a case- 
> crossover
> design whereby individual drivers are their own control.

The drivers are "their own control" by looking at their driving the  
one, three, and seven days before.  Not exactly a good control if the  
drivers did not get an "agitating call" on those days.

But whether it is the call, the phone, the headset, the drivers,  
etc., JC's point of "accidents are not increasing in general" sounds  
pretty strong to me.

And MOST importantly, none of this is even slightly on topic. :)

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TTFN,
patrick