ESTABLISHING MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT. AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH

THE PROBLEM OF ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT RATES IS COMPLEX. PROVING GROUND TESTING IS LESS RELIABLE THAN LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE ON HIGHWAYS, THE ULTIMATE CRITERION OF SAFETY. RESULTS OF MANY STUDIES INDICATE THAT ACCIDENTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO DIRECT VEHICLE DEFECTS AMOUNT TO ONLY 8% OF THE TOTAL, AND STUDY FO THIS DATA IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF A PARTICULAR VEHICLE. TO ESTABLISH VEHICLE ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT RATES, BOTH FOR PARTICULAR VEHICLES, AND FOR SYSTEM OF VEHICLES, A MODEL IS PRESENTED. THE MODEL INCLUDES TRAFFIC DENSITY, VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT, AND DRIVER AGE, FOR ALL OF WHICH EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA ARE AVAILABLE. IN ADDITION, COMPARISONS OF VEHICLES FOR VARIATIONS IN ACCIDENT RATES AND EXPOSURE (MILEAGE) ARE PERFORMED. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 1288-1298, 7 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Intl Auto Sfty Conf Compendium

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• Authors:
  • Peranio, A
  • Katz, A
• Publication Date: 1970

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crash rates; Drivers; Epidemiology; Human characteristics; Mathematical models; Traffic crashes; Traffic density; Vehicle characteristics; Vehicle miles of travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Driver characteristics; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221149
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 15 1970 12:00AM