Southeastern United States fatal crash study

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• Creators:
  Dixon, Karen
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fatalities
  • Highway factors in crashes
  • Seat belts
  • Collisions
  • Crash causes
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-GA-05-9815 ; 9815
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Georgia. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  A significant safety issue in the United States is the substantial number of vehicle related crashes. The number of fatal ; crashes in the southeastern portion of the U.S. (States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North ; Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) is disproportionately higher than those for the entire country. In general, the ; eight states collectively report approximately 26-percent of the total annual number of fatal automobile-related crashes in ; the U.S. On average, the southeastern states experience an additional 30 fatalities per million vehicle miles traveled than ; the U.S. average. The Federal Highway Administration and the eight southeastern states initiated a joint research effort ; for the region to study this observed over-representation of fatal crashes. ; Findings of the study suggest that improved features such as widening shoulders, enhancing delineation, and protecting ; the clear zone would substantially reduce these fatal crashes. Some of the researchers recommended that additional ; procedures and policies may be an appropriate countermeasure for wide-scale improvements. Countermeasures (physical ; as well as political) were explicitly recommended to address two-lane rural roads, safety restraint use and fixed-object ; crashes. ; A supplemental finding was the presence of extensive pavement edge drop-offs for fatal crash sites in at least two of ; the participating states. As this observation occurred as a result of field inspection and was not initially identified as a ; target problem, it was not studied in great detail for this research effort but merits special comment since it is potentially a ; significant finding of the study.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16513/dot_16513_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 510.28 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:84d813ccb998cf8648d577a66fd980b0430638af7c674252b3cbb89d3046a9548a71664e43bec40785d93afc576761b0915877b8b8d7232aba89f8963f8e29c2