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OCLC Number:62510213
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NTL Classification:NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY;
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Abstract:The 1994 traffic fatality count was 1,419, up 0.4 percent from the 1993 figure of 1,414.
Compared with 1993, injuries were up 5.7 percent and total crashes were up 9.5 percent.
These figures translated into a death rate of 1.7 per 100 million miles of travel, up 6.25
percent from the death rate of 1.6 reported in 1993. Exposure factors in 1994 showed increases in vehicle registrations and the number of licensed drivers, and a decrease in travel mileage. They included motor vehicle registrations up 2.3 percent to 7.67 million; the number of drivers up 0.3 percent to 7.66 million; and vehicle travel mileage down 0.1 percent to 85.6 billion. While the consumption of alcohol continues to be a major factor affecting crashes, an
estimated 68 percent of fatal crashes do not involve alcohol. Traffic safety planners must not
focus exclusively on safety belt use (now at 66.1% [1]) or alcohol involvement (32% of all
fatal crashes), but incorporate other factors such as excessive speed, driver fatigue and the
lack of “common courtesy” into their efforts to reduce traffic crashes. Data on crashes in this booklet were obtained from 1994 Michigan Traffic Crash Report Forms (UD-10) submitted by local police departments, sheriff jurisdictions, and the Department of State Police. Other related information was obtained from the Departments of Transportation, State, and Public Health.
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