2013 Traffic Safety Culture Index

As in previous years, this sixth annual Traffic Safety Culture Index finds that Americans do value safe travel and desire a greater level of safety than they now experience. They perceive unsafe driver behaviors such as speeding and drinking and driving as serious threats to their personal safety and generally support laws that would improve traffic safety by restricting driver behavior, even when such laws would restrict behaviors they admit to engaging in themselves. As in previous years, the survey also highlights some aspects of the current traffic safety culture that might be characterized most appropriately as a culture of indifference, in which drivers effectively demonstrate a “Do as I say, not as I do” attitude. For example, substantial numbers of drivers say that it is completely unacceptable to drive 15 mph over the speed limit on freeways, yet admit having done that in the past month. This report presents the results of the AAA Foundation’s sixth annual Traffic Safety Culture Index, conducted from September 18 through October 3, 2013 by GfK for the AAA Foundation, with a sample of 3,103 U.S. residents ages 16 and older using a web-enabled probability-based panel representative of the United States population. Topics include: crash exposure, impaired driving, cell phone use, texting, speeding, drowsy driving, seat belt use, and helmet use.

• Record URL:
  • https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2013TrafficSafetyCultureIndexReport.pdf
• Summary URL:
  • https://aaafoundation.org/2013-traffic-safety-culture-index/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2014 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
• Corporate Authors:

  AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

  607 14th Street, NW, Suite 201
  Washington, DC    20005
• Publication Date: 2014-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 37p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age groups; Cellular telephones; Drivers; Drowsiness; Drunk driving; Gender; Helmets; Highway safety; Seat belt use; Speeding; Surveys; Text messaging; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518922
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 21 2014 11:27AM