TRUCKS INVOLVED IN FATAL ACCIDENTS, CODEBOOK 1996

This report provides one-way frequencies for all the vehicles in UMTRI's file of Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents, 1996. The TIFA database provides coverage of all medium and heavy trucks recorded in the Fatal Accident Reporting Systems (FARS) file. TIFA combines vehicle, accident, and occupant records from FARS with information about the physical configuration and operating authority of the truck from the TIFA survey. Some sampling was done in selecting cases for the file. All cases in which the truck driver was killed were sampled with certainty. All cases occurring in Michigan were taken with certainty. Half the cases where the FARS body type and vehicle trailering variables indicated the vehicle was a straight truck with no trailer or a tractor with one trailer were taken. All other cases coded as a truck in the FARS body type variable were taken.

• Record URL:
  http://www.umtri.umich.edu/content/TIFA1996.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

  2901 Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109-2150

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Blower, D
  • Pettis, L
• Publication Date: 1998-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 129 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Frequency (Electromagnetism); Heavy duty trucks; Medium trucks; Sampling; Truck crashes
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757873
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-042 717,, UMTRI-98-14,, Special Report Task A
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-96-C-0038
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 21 1998 12:00AM