United States Department of Transportation
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TRIS Online Accession Number:1139259
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OCLC Number:664707681
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Edition:Summary report
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Abstract:In the past quarter of a century, the lives of over one million men, women, and children have ended violently as the result of motor vehicle crashes in the United States. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children, teens, and young adults up to age 34.1 Statistics from the United States Department of Transportation indicate that 37,261 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2008.2 Although this represents the fewest people killed in crashes in a single year since 1961, over a hundred lives are still being cut short day after day as the result of preventable accidents on our roads. Since 2006, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has been sponsoring research to better understand traffic safety culture.3 The AAA Foundation defines traffic safety culture as a social climate in which traffic safety is highly valued and rigorously pursued.4 In 2008, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety conducted the first annual Traffic Safety Culture Index,5 a nationally-representative telephone survey, to begin to assess a few key indicators of the degree to which traffic safety is valued and is being pursued, i.e., the prevailing traffic safety culture. This Summary Report presents the top-line results of the AAA Foundation’s second annual Traffic Safety Culture Index, a nationally-representative telephone survey of the American public.
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