ANALYSIS OF MOTORWAY ACCIDENTS

ZUR ANALYSE VON AUTOBAHN-UNFAELLEN

In this report it is shown that motorways are at present the safest type of highway, but that the severity of accidents on motorways is greater than in the case of other types of highway. 823 accidents on Austrian motorways were studied. It was shown that the driver involved in accidents displays characteristic features, particularly lack of driving practice, that native drivers are over-represented in percentages in the number of accidents involving personal injury and that middle class drivers at 57% are more often involved in accidents than people in lower social classes.

• Corporate Authors:

  Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH und Co KG

  Juliusstrasse 2, Postfach 19
  6200 Wiesbaden 1,   Germany 
• Publication Date: 1978-8

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 265
• Serial:
  • Polizei Technik Verkehr
  • Volume: 69
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Hannes Schmitt-Horr Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Crash investigation; Crashes; Data analysis; Driver experience; Drivers; Freeways; High risk drivers; Injury severity; Knowledge; Mathematical analysis; Recently qualified drivers; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Traffic crashes; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experience
• Geographic Terms: Austria
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway traffic accidents
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 2279: Accident proneness; 6471: Analysis (math); 8007: Austria; 1243: Car; 1772: Driver; 2225: Experience (human); 1236: Lorry; 2752: Motorway; 1782: Recently qualified driver; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 2253: Sociology
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00309769
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1980 12:00AM