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This report provides a summary of the Crash Data Improvement Program (CDIP) peer exchange sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Safety on August 4, 2011. The peer exchange was hosted in conjunction with the annual Traffic Records Forum (TRF) in Charlotte, North Carolina. FHWA initiated the CDIP in 2006 to help States […]
New Data Show U.S. Driving at Highest Level in Six Years Nearly Three Trillion Miles Traveled Over Last 12 Months Supports Call for Greater Transportation Investment WASHINGTON – New estimates released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that American driving between July 2013 and June 2014 is at levels […]
FORBES: The safest places to drive in the nation are the District of Columbia and Massachusetts, but West Virginia, South Carolina, North Dakota and Wyoming are among the worst states. Those are the results of a new report that found that while road safety in the United States has improved substantially in the last decade — road […]
Since 2005, road safety in the U.S. has improved substantially. Of interest in this study was road safety in the individual U.S. states and the District of Columbia, both in terms of the current status and recent changes. The analysis included the use of two primary measures: fatality rate per distance driven, and fatality rate per population. The […]
Alabama State Troopers investigated 237 crashes resulting in 10 deaths and 123 injuries during the Fourth of July travel period, according to the Alabama Department of Public Safety. The travel period is considered the 78 hours from 6 p.m. Thursday through midnight Sunday.
This article is to explain the rationale for the following statement that is made in the 2010 Crash Facts Book: Based on 2010 data, if you are a typical driver in Alabama, there is greater than a one in three chance that you will be involved in an injury or fatal crash while driving an […]
There are a number of inconsistencies between the data collected within eCrash and that obtained from the paper forms. The deployment of eCrash was on June 1, 2009 for all DPS and some city agencies. Additional cities were added througout the remainder of 2009 and 2010. The purpose of this article is to address these […]
The following IMPACT that compares Alcohol Crashes (red bars) vs. Non-Alcohol (blue bars) for the Day of the Week variable will be used to explain IMPACT outputs See image below for the IMPACT output for the alcohol-related day of the week variable will be used for this explanation. The left (red) bars represent the current […]
The Alabama Department of Public Safety teamed with the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) to develop eCrash, the nation’s first totally paperless crash reporting system. Except for the reports provided to those involved in crashes, all other aspects of eCrash are paperless, from the officers’ entry of the data (in many […]
