An Overview of Rural Speed Crashes in North Carolina 1994-1999

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• Creators:
  Hunter, William W. ; Stewart, J. Richard ; Van Heusen-Causey, Sarah
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Design Standards Drivers Drunk Drivers Females Highway Curves Injuries Males Ran Off Road Accidents Rear End Collisions Rural Areas Rural Highways Secondary Roads Speeding Traffic Crashes Traffic Speed

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• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  North Carolina
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00808855
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Speed Limits ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety ; NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics ; AGR-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY
• Abstract:
  An analysis of speed-related crashes in rural areas of North Carolina resulted in these key findings: 44% of speed-related crashes took place on secondary roads, where roadway design standards are lower than for other types of roadways. Speed-related crashes were overrepresented on curved sections of roadway. Two of the most frequent speed-related crash types were ran-off-road (48%) and rear-end (40%), together accounting for nearly 90% of the total. Compared to all rural crashes, speed-related crashes resulted in higher percentages of Type A (incapacitating injuries that will prevent normal activities for more than 24 hours), Type B (non-incapacitating injuries that will not prevent daily activities for more than 24 hours), and Type C (complaint of pain or momentary unconsciousness) injuries. Young male drivers, ages 16-25 years old, were more often charged with a speed-related violation in these crashes than any other male or female age group. Young females were also overrepresented as speeding drivers, but to a lesser extent. For crashes occurring on rural secondary roads, 36% of the speeding drivers were young males. Whereas 5% of all drivers in crashes were classified as having been drinking, this increased to 10% for speeding drivers.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:06ea6091dc03427f5bafde51fb41e90a2bc1cc32a7e10d83d243da8fb2c544fd
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4793/dot_4793_DS1.pdf
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