Study Analyzes Crashes on the Capital Beltway

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• Alternative Title:
  Traffic Tech: Study Analyzes Crashes on the Capital Beltway
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic crashes
  • Crash analysis
  • Crash causes
  • Crash reports
  • Ran off road crashes
  • Rear end collisions
  • Side collisions
  • Interchanges
  • Capital Beltway
  • crashes
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington Metropolitan Area
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00814074
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety
• Abstract:
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sponsored six studies to better understand how and why crashes occur on the Capital Beltway. This Traffic Tech describes one of these studies. Preusser Research Group, Inc., of Trumbull, Connecticut examined the patterns of crashes during a two-year period - 1993 and 1994. They looked beyond the physical characteristics of crashes to categorize driver behavioral errors that so often cause crashes. For these two years, three types of crashes accounted for 78% of all Beltway crashes: stop-slowing rear-end collisions (36%); ran off road (23%); and sideswipe-cutoff (18%).
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13755/dot_13755_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 62.16 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1d914a7c470eff6ce763360a94f3b12b7b905b6af6980de86f1a3b71363c8e12