Driving offenders and the defensive driving course--an archival study.
Two hundred and seventy-five drivers who had been required by court order to attend a Defensive Driving Course (DDC) were compared on six posttreatment driving measures obtained from archival data with 275 drivers who also had had a court appearance and standard treatment. The DDC group showed greater reductions in serious and accident-promoting convictions but no greater reduction in accidents when compared with the standard treatment comparison group.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*