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Psychological knowledge from eye-witness research is applied here to the particular problem of reporting road accidents. Thereby the paper highlights some of the assumptions in eye-witness research. The interface between that research and the reporting of road accidents is examined by reference to existing social psychological notions. These are notions about questioning and about hypothesis testing. The paper makes special reference to the questioning of child witnesses because problems therein are particularly acute.
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Sheehy, N.P., Chapman, A.J. Eliciting children’s and adults’ accounts of road accidents. Current Psychological Reviews 2, 341–348 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02684466
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