Southeastern United States fatal crash study.

Details

• Creators:
  Dixon, Karen
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Collisions Traffic Accidents--Southern States Traffic Crashes
• 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
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9b08a85cd24e1ee91bb560591a662f2ad95174beae3354465a730732432de11b
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23445/dot_23445_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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