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Road Traffic Accidents in Turkey: Some Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Theo Nichols  and
Fatih Güngör
Theo Nichols
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, England
Fatih Güngör
Affiliation:
Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, University of Ankara
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Although road traffic accidents are a matter of considerable public concern in Turkey, they have attracted little systematic analysis from social scientists. This paper seeks to examine accident trends from 1955 to 1995, in terms of changes in fatalities per vehicle as well as fatalities per head of population. It then critically surveys the adequacy and applicability to the Turkish case of theories of motorization and accidents and of risk compensation and homeostasis. Finally, the paper speculates on how accident variation over time in Turkey may relate to wider social and economic processes.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 20 , Spring 1999 , pp. 107 - 123
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1999

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