THE ROLE OF ACCIDENT STUDIES IN PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

The role of accident studies in roadside safety problem identification, the various levels of accident data available, and the problems associated with them are discussed in this paper. Police level accident data are useful for identifying the extent of safety problems, but are limited in their usefulness for determining accident relationships or evaluating safety countermeasure effectiveness. Problems associated with police level accident data include location identification, definitions and reporting criteria, and accident report data elements. In-depth accident data, from clinical studies to general purpose and special studies, provide the necessary details that are lacking in police level accident data, but are much more expensive and thus limited to only specific studies. Furthermore, both police-reported and in-depth levels of accident data are faced with problems associated with exposure, unreported accidents, and time lag. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  P.O. Box 222
  Morton Grove, IL  United States  60053
• Authors:
  • Mak, K K
• Conference:
  • 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Location: San Antonio Texas, United States
  • Date: 1983-10-3 to 1983-10-6
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 409-418
• Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA, OCTOBER 3-6, 1983. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash analysis; Crash reconstruction; Crash reports; Crashes; Data collection; Errors; Location; Police; Recording; Roadside; Safety factors; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data sources
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 6440: Error; 9061: Location; 1522: Police; 1621: Reconstruction (accid); 6969: Recording
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I80: Accident Studies; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389454
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM