Lay Perceptions of Responsibility and Accountability for Fatigue-Related Road Crashes

Small groups of participants acting as mock juries heard an audiotape of the summing up arguments in a fatigue-related truck-crash court case. When asked to decide if they thought that the defendant was guilty, participants found the defendant not guilty significantly more often than guilty. Further...

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Published in:	Journal of Road Safety
Main Authors:	Christopher Jones, Shantha Rajaratnam, Jillian Dorrian, Drew Dawson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Australasian College of Road Safety 2010-02-01
Online Access:	https://journalofroadsafety.org/article/32874-lay-perceptions-of-responsibility-and-accountability-for-fatigue-related-road-crashes