A STATE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION PROGRAM -- PHASE 2. FINAL REPORT. VOL. 1

THIS STUDY TESTED, EVALUATED, AND REVISED A POLICE TRAFFIC CRASH INVESTIGATION REPORT FORM, INSTRUCTION MANUAL, AND ACCOMPANYING DATE ENCODING MANUAL. CASE HISTORIES, ACTUAL CRASH INVESTIGATIONS, AND A SIMULATED CRASH EXPERIMENT WERE UTILIZED WITH ABOUT 300 POLICE OFFICERS PARTICIPATING. THE FORM AND MANUALS WERE REVIEWED IN ALL 50 STATES. IT WAS FOUND THAT ERRORS OR DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN FORMS RANGED FROM 15% FOR ACTUAL CRASHES TO 40% FOR SIMULATED CRASHES, ERROR SCORES BEING RELATED TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CRASH. INFORMATION CATEGORIES JUDGED RELEVENT TO CRASH INVESTIGATION WERE DEFINITIZED AND A REVISED FORM AND CRASH INVESTIGATION MANUAL PREPARED. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 23 Pp, 8 ReF
• Corporate Authors:

  Travelers Research Center, Inc

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• Authors:
  • BLUMENTHAL, M
  • Wuerdemann, H
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Crash investigation; Crash reports; Crash types; Manuals; Methodology; Police; Reports; Simulation; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220765
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 19 1970 12:00AM