AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENT DATA USING INDUCED EXPOSURE

A CONTROL POPULATION OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS---ONE IN WHICH RESPONSIBILITY CAN DEFINITELY BE ASSIGNED TO ONE DRIVER OR VEHICLE---IS USED TO INVESTIGATE DRIVER AND VEHICLE AGE AS CAUSATIVE FACTORS. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT DRIVERS AGED 16-24 AND 56 PLUS ARE OVERREPRESENTED IN THE ACCIDENT POPULATION; NO CONCLUSION COULD BE DRAWN ABOUT VEHICLE AGE OR MODEL AS CAUSATIVE FACTORS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 6-12, 6 FIG, 6 TAB, 8 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  /Hit Lab Reports
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Hall, W K
• Publication Date: 1970-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crash analysis; Crash exposure; Crash investigation; Crash rates; Drivers; Human characteristics; Motor vehicles; Service life; Traffic crashes; Vehicle characteristics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Driver characteristics; Vehicle age
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221131
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 2 1970 12:00AM