Economics of road accidents and fatalities in Britain
Enormous costs stem from road accidents. Using a unique dataset and a variety of statistical models, this thesis investigates road accidents as consequences of other factors linked to risky driver behaviour. We find a procyclical relationship between economic activity and road accidents and fatalities but a changing relationship with severity (procyclical pre-GFC, but not thereafter). Overall accidents increase with positive and negative FTSE100 returns. However, fatal accidents decline with negative returns. Analysis of two driver penalty interventions relating to speeding and mobile phone use reveals no effect of either intervention on numbers of serious or fatal accidents.
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Supplemental Notes:
- PhD thesis
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Authors:
- Fry, J M
- Publication Date: 2020-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 1 file
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Costs; Crashes; Drivers; Economic analysis; Economics; Fatalities; Penalties; Risk taking; Statistical analysis; Statistics
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- ATRI Terms: Crash costs; Driver behaviour; Economic analysis; Fatality rate; Penalty; Risk taking; Statistical analysis
- ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 1602: Fatality; 1502: Penalty
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01771289
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB Group Limited
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: May 7 2021 10:08AM