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Southeastern United States fatal crash study.

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English


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  • Creators:
    Dixon, Karen
  • Corporate Creators:
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Georgia
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Georgia. Dept. of Transportation
  • Abstract:
    A significant safety issue in the United States is the substantial number of vehicle ; related crashes. In particular, death due to injuries sustained in an automobile crash is the ; leading cause of death for persons between the ages of 2 and 33 years old (1). ; The number of fatal crashes in the southeastern portion of the United States is ; disproportionately higher than those for the entire country. Table 1 depicts an eight year ; summary of the number of fatal crashes for the eight southeastern states of Alabama, ; Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. ; In general, the eight states collectively report approximately 26-percent of the total ; annual number of fatal automobile-related crashes in the United States. Table 2 includes ; the individual state fatality rates from 1996 to 2003. On average, the southeastern states ; experience an additional 30 fatalities per million vehicle miles traveled than the United ; States average. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the eight ; southeastern states initiated a joint research effort for the region to study this observed ; over-representation of fatal crashes. ; This study is complete and this summary report provides an overview of the study ; participants, their role in the project, and the varying results available.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Download URL:
    https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23445/dot_23445_DS1.pdf
  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 466.22 KB]
  • Collection(s):
    US Transportation Collection
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:923b080303166413a85584605ae423ded4467f8859f352c0b45f28070cac1ab6c6dbe61c0d1807048f28cba9c7299565b77a2247bd01e9c93278ec423465576e
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