Utah Crash Summary, 1997

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Utah. Highway Safety Office
• Corporate Contributors:
  Utah. Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Statistics
  • Fatalities
  • Tables (Data)
  • Traffic crashes
  • Crash data
  • Crash rates
  • Highways
  • Crash injuries
  • Alcohol use
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Utah ; United States
• OCLC Number:
  32480147
• Corporate Publisher:
  Utah. Dept. of Public Safety
• Abstract:
  In 1997, there were 54,952 crashes accounting for 31,237 injured persons and 366 fatalities in Utah. Overall, crash participants are male, and in the age group 15-24 years. In addition, while most crashes occurred in the urban areas, fatal crashes were more likely to occur in rural areas. Increased speeds and longer response time for emergency medical services in the rural areas may account for the rural/urban difference in fatal crash rates. Speeding and impaired driving are contributing factors that led to severe injury or death in motor vehicle crashes. There were over 8,000 speed related crashes in 1997 resulting in 120 fatalities. The majority of the speed related fatalities occurred on highways. Almost 2,000 crashes were attributed to alcohol and other drug involvement resulting in 88 fatalities. In fact, almost 25% of all crash fatalities were alcohol or drug related. While alcohol or drug related crashes are a great concern nationwide, for Utah, speeding appears to be the leading factor associated with crash fatalities and may warrant increased attention.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39412/dot_39412_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 614.50 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d2009234ec2db866c9011d8d1f56fd52a9435370b7dadc3c9783122b5dd8b129