SPECIAL STUDY. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES IN COLLISIONS INVOLVING VEHICLES PARKED OR STOPPED ON HIGHWAY SHOULDERS
This is a pilot study of In-Depth Accident Reports involving commercial and noncommercial vehicles parked on highway shoulders. It covers accidents investigated by the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety during 9 calendar years (1967 through 1975). FHWA's field staff conducted in-depth accident investigations of 2,006 (.5%) of the 400,000 accident reports filed in this time period. Fifty eight (3%) of these 2,006 accidents involved commercial and/or non-commercial vehicles stopped on highway shoulders. These accidents resulted in 105 fatalities and 199 injuries. Forty seven of the accidents occurred on Interstate highways, 8 on U.S. highways, and three on State routes and city streets. Fifty two were rear-end collisions which resulted in ninety two fatalities. A truck collided with a car in thirty of the accidents, resulting in fifty six fatalities. The initial cause of the accident was dozing at the wheel in thirty one reports (thirty commercial drivers) which resulted in sixty three of the fatalities.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 1977
Media Info
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: 22 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: All terrain vehicles; Commercial vehicles; Crash causes; Crash investigation; Crash rates; Crash reports; Crash severity; Crash types; Crashes; Fatalities; Injuries; Musculoskeletal system; Rear end crashes; Statistics
- Old TRIS Terms: Shoulder accidents
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00361180
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-032 438
- Files: HSL, USDOT
- Created Date: May 28 1982 12:00AM