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2014 Crash Facts Book
The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit.
2011 Traffic Safety Overview
DOT HS 811 753 Motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States, providing an unprecedented degree of mobility. Yet for all its advantages, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for age 4 and every age 11 through 27 (based on 2009 data). The mission of the National […]
A Cost Curve to Improve Road Safety
Giancarlo Ghislanzoni, Gilad Myerson, and Alessandro Faure Ragani By more fully evaluating available countermeasures, stakeholders can focus on the most effective ones. Each year, traffic crashes kill more than 1.2 million people around the world and injure up to 50 million.1 In fact, they are the leading cause of death among people 15 to 29 […]
Americans are Driving Less, but Not In Alabama
AL.com: Americans are logging fewer miles behind that wheel, but that’s not the case in Alabama, a new report shows. Driving Alabama is Dawn Kent Azok’s weekly look at auto industry news, from the state’s car assembly lines to its roadways and beyond.
Unclean at Any Speed
Ozzie Zehner Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems. Last summer, California highway police pulled over pop star Justin Bieber as he sped through Los Angeles in an attempt to shake the paparazzi. He was driving a hybrid electric car—not just any hybrid, mind you, but a chrome-plated Fisker Karma, a US $100 000 […]
2013 Crash Facts Book
The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit.
Motor-vehicle deaths up 14% in first two months of 2012.
Motor-vehicle deaths in February of 2012 totaled 5,280. This figure is up 14% from the corresponding 2-month period in 2011. The February figure for 2012 was up 13% from the 2010 figure. The February total for 2011 was 4,640, a less than 0.5% decrease from 2010. The 2010 figure was 13% lower than 2009. The […]
Ten Year Crash Patterns (2003-2012)
The following is an abstract of a study performed using crash reports from Alabama over the past ten years. Some differences in the reporting process itself originated in July 1, 2009 when DPS and several key local reporting agencies began using eCrash, Alabama’s electronic crash reporting system. In 2012 eCrash was used in over 90% […]