OFFICIAL REPORT SAYS: SPEED DOESN'T KILL

This is an excerpt from the appendix to the National Research Council Report, '55: A Decade of Experience.' The appendix presents technical data from research that shows that speed as such is not the major source of highway fatalities, and that the problem instead is the variance in speeds. Multiple regression anslyses to predict the variable 'fatalties per vehicle mile traveled' are described. Models to yield direct coefficient estimates for the separate effects of speed and speed-variance are also described.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Consumers Union of United States, Incorporated

  256 Washington Street
  Mount Vernon, NY  United States  10550
• Publication Date: 1986-12

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29-31
• Serial:
  • Consumer Reports
  • Volume: 69
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Consumers Union of U.S., Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0010-7174
  • Serial URL: http://www.consumerreports.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: 55 mph speed limit; Fatalities; Highway safety; Mathematical models; Regression analysis; Speed; Speed distribution; Variance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Speed variance
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00496181
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-039 777
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 31 1990 12:00AM