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The traffic problem is one of the most serious confronting the living organism. Deaths on the highway and on the city streets are increasing rapidly. The use of the automobile, a result of the highly developed human nervous system, also taxes that nervous system to its utmost because many of the activities of the individual bring him unexpectedly or uncontrollably into relationship with that moving, potentially homicidal object, the automobile. It is necessary for the individual to have perfect coordination in avoiding an automobile which is rapidly approaching him and to have perfect coordination in handling one. His psychosensory equipment must be adequate, so that he can sense and perceive traffic complications. (Selling, 1940, p. 385)
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de L Horne, D.J. (1993). Traumatic Stress Reactions to Motor Vehicle Accidents. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_43
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