Tag: CAPS

  • January 1st, 2016

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. Fatal crashes […]

  • January 1st, 2015

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.

  • October 27th, 2014

True or False?  In fatal crashes between cars and trucks, it is the truck that is most often at fault?  The chart below shows that this is false.  Heavy trucks only caused about 22% of the fatal crashes in which they were involved.  The general driving public has a sense that the truck causes the […]

  • May 15th, 2014

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 […]

  • May 14th, 2014

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 […]

  • May 14th, 2014

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 […]

  • May 14th, 2014

Most statistical information needs can be obtained online from the new CARE Dashboard, developed by the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS). Use the tutorials available here to learn about the data and the CARE Dashboard. Details on the CARE software are also available on the CARE page of the CAPS website. […]