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Reflections on the highway safety field

Correspondence to:
Dr Allan F Williams
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1005 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA; awilliams@iihs.org

Keywords: highway safety; graduated licensing; alcohol impaired driving

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It is a great honor to have been invited to give the inaugural Patricia F Waller memorial lecture. Certainly any reflections on this field would have to note Pat’s many significant contributions over several decades. I will mention several, as I tell you what I think about the status of the highway safety field, based on my own 30+ years of experience.

Pat and I served together on various committees. The most recent was a National Academy of Sciences committee assembled to assess the status of the injury control field. Motor vehicle injury control was determined to be the "show horse" of the field, as evidenced by this quote from the committee report: "Over the past three decades, dramatic progress has been made in reducing motor vehicle injuries by understanding the factors that increase the risk of injury, designing interventions to reduce these risks, and implementing and evaluating . . . [Full text of this article]