Word: desilva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedy the situation DeSilva proposes a driver clinic for elderly persons. He stresses stricter training and more difficult tests in automobile handling for youth...
...Youthful operators unquestionably have the greatest accident incidence," says Dr. Harry R. DeSilva, Lecturer in Psychology, in "Age and Highway Accidents," an article in December's "Scientific Monthly...
...There is also," DeSilva states, "not much difference in the incidence of alcoholism between the man in his forties and the man in his twenties and thirties. The reason more drunken drivers in their forties are detected is that more persons drink in their forties than at any other...
...They drive more rapidly and travel farther than older drivers," says DeSilva about youth. "Having less experience and less responsibilities (there are fewer owners and less married men in the younger age group) they undoubtedly drive with less restraint and are more interested in getting places in a hurry," he continues...
...DeSilva declared, "You can get results by using scientific tests because the driver is convinced then. People don't do things because you tell them, but because it seems reasonable to them...