ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENT RATES BY AGE, GENDER, AND TIME OF DAY BASED ON THE 1990 NATIONWIDE PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION SURVEY. FINAL REPORT

Passenger-vehicle travel data from the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) are combined with accident data from the 1990 Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) and the 1990 General Estimates System (GES) to produce accident involvement rates per vehicle-mile of travel. The same data sources are also used to generate rates per driver and per capita. Analyses are conducted according to the age and gender of the driver for fatal involvements, injury involvements, and all police-reported accidents. Elevated mileage-based rates of fatal involvements were observed for drivers 16-19 and 75 and over. The youngest drivers had 3.0 times the overall risk of fatal involvement per mile driven, while the oldest drivers experienced 3.8 times the overall risk. Considering accidents of all levels of severity, drivers 16-19 had the highest rate per mile in 1990, experiencing 3.3 times the risk of drivers of all ages. Drivers 75 and older recorded a rate 2.0 times the overall. Gender-related differences were observed in the 1990 accident involvement rates. Per mile driven, men had about 1.5 times the risk of women of experiencing a fatal accident. However, the difference in the fatal rate between men and women was most extreme among the younger age groups, and by age 60, the rates for men and women were essentially identical. For non-fatal accidents, a different picture emerged. Per mile driven, women were found to have a 26% higher injury involvement rate and 16% higher rate in all police-reported accidents compared to men. Women had higher rates of non-fatal accidents than men the same age for every age group 25 and over.

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• Authors:
  • Massie, D L
  • Campbell, K L
• Publication Date: 1993-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 90 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Age; Aged drivers; Crash causes; Crash rates; Crashes; Drivers; Fatalities; Gender; Hazards; Injuries; Periods of the day; Risk assessment; Teenage drivers
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System; General Estimates System; Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey
• Old TRIS Terms: Age factor in accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00629027
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTRI-93-7
• Contract Numbers: 7188
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1993 12:00AM