A PILOT STUDY OF TRAFFIC CONFLICTS AT A RURAL DUAL CARRIAGEWAY INTERSECTION

THE RELATION OF TRAFFIC CONFLICTS TO INJURY ACCIDENTS WAS INVESTIGATED. SIMPLE CONFLICTS, OR SITUATIONS INVOLVING ONE OR MORE VEHICLES TAKING EVASIVE ACTION, DO NOT CORRELATE CLOSELY WITH REPORTED INJURY ACCIDENTS, BUT SERIOUS CONFLICTS, OR SITUATIONS INVOLVING A VEHICLE IN A SUDDEN RAPID DECELERATION OR LANE CHANGE TO AVOID COLLISION, CORRELATE WELL WITH REPORTED INJURY ACCIDENTS BOTH IN LOCATION AND TIME OF DAY. IT IS SHOWN THAT MORE THAN TWO VEHICLES WERE PRESENT IN THREE QUARTERS OF THE CONFLICTS STUDIED. THREE OF THE MOST COMMON SITUATIONS OBSERVED LEADING TO MULTIVEHICLE CONFLICTS ARE DESCRIBED. SPEED MEASUREMENTS WERE MADE, BUT NO EVIDENCE WAS FOUND WHICH INDICATED THAT VEHICLES TRAVELLING FASTER THAN AVERAGE WERE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE GENERATION OF ACCIDENT SITUATIONS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No RRL-LR-410
• Corporate Authors:

  Road Research Laboratory /UK

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• Authors:
  • Spicer, B R
• Publication Date: 1971

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 29 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Crashes; Injuries; Intersections; Multiple vehicle crashes; Psychological conflict; Rural highways
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226547
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 8 1973 12:00AM