| Fatal Accidents On The Road: An Analysis Of Police Inquiry Files |
06/1998 |
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As part of a road accident prevention program financed by MAIF (1), the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP, CNRS-Ministère de la Justice) (2) was assigned the task of researching the behavior of drivers involved in fatal road accidents and of witnesses to such accidents. On the basis of a body of preliminary inquiry files (files systematically kept by the police), Claudine Pérez-Diaz (Research Engineer at the CESDIP) has analyzed such behavior. This research has brought to light relationships between fatal road accidents and certain fundamental social problems ; it has also made it possible to define areas in which prevention could be applied, in particular by encouraging collective consideration of a specific " duty to intervene ".
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1) MAIF : Mutuelle Assurance Automobile des Instituteurs de France (= French infant and primary school teachers' mutual automobile insurance company).
This program associates the Centre européen d'études socio-économiques et accidentologiques des risques et le Laboratoire d'accidentologie et de bio-mécanique, commun à Peugot-Citroën et Renault (= the European Center for Socio-Economic and Accidentological Research into Risks, and the joint Peugeot-Citroën and Renault Accidentology and Biomechanics Laboratory).
The research contact between MAIF and the CNRS was entered into via the Association Nationale pour la Valorisation de la Recherche en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société auprès des Entreprises (ANVIE) (= National Association for promoting the application of human and social sciences in business).
2) = Center for Sociological Research into Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP, CNRS-Ministry of Justice)
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