DRIVEWAY ACCIDENT AND VOLUME STUDIES - PART 1 -- GENERAL RELATIONSHIPS

DATA INVOLVING TWO TO FIVE YEARS OF DRIVEWAY ACCIDENT HISTORY FROM SKOKIE, ILLINOIS HAVE BEEN ANALYZED. FINDINGS IN PART I OF A THREE PART SERIES INCLUDE: 11% OF CITYWIDE ACCIDENTS INVOLVED DRIVEWAYS; 83% OF ALL DRIVEWAY ACCIDENTS OCCURRED ON MAJOR TRAFFIC ROUTES; 60% OF ALL ACCIDENTS AND 75% OF THE INJURY TYPE ACCIDENTS INVOLVED LEFT TURNS; AND PROXIMITY OF AN INTERSECTION WAS AN ELEMENT OF 7% OF THE MAJOR ROUTE DRIVEWAY ACCIDENTS, BUT ONLY 3% OF THE MINOR OR LOCAL STREET DRIVEWAY ACCIDENTS. ACCIDENT RATES ON A PER YEAR, PER DRIVEWAY AND PER ESTABLISHMENT BASIS WERE ALSO TABULATED ALONG MAJOR TRAFFIC ROUTES AS A FUNCTION OF TYPE OF ABUTTING DEVELOPMENT. THE AVERAGE ACCIDENT FREQUENCY PER YEAR PER DRIVEWAY WAS 0.33, WHILE THE SAME RATE ON A "PER ESTABLISHMENT" BASIS WAS 0.6. OF THE 407 TOTAL PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE RIDER ACCIDENTS, ONLY 3% INVOLVED DRIVEWAYS. OF THESE, MOST INVOLVED MOTOR VEHICLES LEAVING THE ESTABLISHMENT. A TENDENCY WAS FOUND FOR AN INCREASED ANNUAL FREQUENCY OF DRIVEWAY ACCIDENTS AS ROUTE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC (ADT) INCREASED. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 18-22, 6 TAB
• Authors:
  • Box, P C
• Publication Date: 1969-6

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Public Safety Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Average daily traffic; Bicycles; Case studies; Crash rates; Driveways; High risk locations; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes; Traffic volume
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220642
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-006 213
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 4 1989 12:00AM