MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS AND VEHICULAR POLLUTION IN LOS ANGELES

A DESCRIPTION IS PRESENTED OF A NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHOD WHICH HAS BEEN USED TO COMPARE LOS ANGELES MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT (MVA) FREQUENCIES WITH THE LEVELS OF TWO AIR POLLUTANTS, OXIDANT (OX) AND CARBON MONOXIDE (CO), DURING TWO HIGH OX AND TWO HIGH CO PERIODS. A STATISTICALLY ASSOCIATION APPEARED TO EXIST BETWEEN CO AND MVA. IT IS SHOWN THAT, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, INCREASING OX LEVELS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY AN INCREASE IN THE FREQUENCY OF MVA, WHILE MVA FREQUENCIES REMAIN ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED WHEN CO LEVELS INCREASE. LAG STUDIES OF ONE TO THREE HOURS SHOWED DECREASING OX-MVA ASSOCIATION AND CONTINUING NONASSOCIATION FOR CO AND MVA.

• Authors:
  • Ury, H K
  • Perkins, N M
  • Goldsmith, J R
• Publication Date: 1972-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 314-22
• Serial:
  • Archives of Environmental Health
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Heldref Publications

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Carbon monoxide; Crash rates; Crashes; Oxides; Statically indeterminate frames
• Old TRIS Terms: Statically indeterminate structure
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224719
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 24 1974 12:00AM