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Traffic Safety Facts 2013 Data: State Traffic Data
In 2013, there were 32,719 fatalities in the United States (50 States and the District of Columbia, and excluding Puerto Rico). Traffic fatalities decreased by 3 percent from 2012 to 2013 for the United States as a whole. Figure 1 shows the 2013 traffic fatalities and the percentage change from 2012 for each State, the […]
Improved Safety Performance Functions for Signalized Intersections
SPR 756, Report No. FHWA-OR-RD-16-03, Oregon Department of Transportation This Final Report documents a research effort to develop improved safety performance functions (SPFs) for signalized intersections in the State of Oregon. In particular, this research effort focused on the relationship between the physical characteristics of the signalized intersection, the crash history at each location, and […]
Long Range Transportation Bill Needed for New I-10 Bridge
Peter Albrecht, WKRG 5 Passing a long-range Federal Transportation Bill is crucial to plans to build a new Interstate-10 bridge across the Mobile River.
Hacks on the Highway
The complaints that flooded into Texas Auto Center that maddening, mystifying week were all pretty much the same: Customers’ cars had gone haywire. Horns started honking in the middle of the night, angering neighbors, waking babies. Then when morning finally came, the cars refused to start. The staff suspected malfunctions in a new Internet device, […]
Mapping to MMUCC: A Process for Comparing Police Crash Reports and State Crash Databases to the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
Report No.: DOT HS 812 184 The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Guideline, Fourth Edition (2012), is a voluntary guideline designed to help States determine what crash data to collect on their police accident reports (PARs) and what data to code and carry in their crash databases. The MMUCC Guideline does not provide States […]
National Telephone Survey of Reported and Unreported Motor Vehicle Crashes
Report No.DOT HS 812 183 NHTSA publishes crash statistics based on police accident reports, but many crashes are never reported by the police. In 1981 NHTSA sponsored a telephone survey to estimate the incidence of unreported crashes. That survey estimated 47 percent of crashes go unreported. In 2008 NHTSA paid for an updated survey, reported […]
Strictest And Most Lenient States on Speeding and Reckless Driving
Myhighplans.com: Before you underestimate the danger of exceeding the speed limit, consider that in 2013, speeding was a factor in 29 percent of motor vehicle crash deaths. Speeding is costly, too. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that the annual economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is $40.4 billion.
Canvas Sacks May Lead to Fewer Deer-Related Car Crashes
Are canvas bags the solution to fewer deer-related car crashes? Two experts from the Teton Research Institute think so, as Deseret News reports, after conducting an experiment that involved tying white canvas sacks over wildlife reflectors along four Wyoming highways, where deer-car collisions are a frequent problem. Traditional red reflectors disperse a vehicle’s headlight beams across the […]