A PROPOSED NEW NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING MULTIPURPOSE ACCIDENT DATA: SIR

The current federal highway traffic accident data collection system is inadequate. It does not produce representative data essential for answering cause-and-effect questions concerning accidents, injuries, and fatalities, and it does not produce adequate data essential for conducting cost-benefit analyses of changes in vehicle design, highway designs, or driver licensing policies. A proposed federal data collection system (SIR) can solve those problems at a total cost of about $6 million a year. The SIR system would include 30 investigating teams precisely located throughout the U.S., and would include a Sampling program, an In-depth program, and a Rapid-Response program. The sooner this system is established, the sooner government and industry will begin to obtain accurate and reliable answers to pressing questions in the field of highway safety. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 5th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, June 3-7, 1974, London, England. Based on work in SRIS 750109 Statistical Inference from Multidiscipliary Accident Investigation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  Huron Parkway and Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109
• Authors:
  • O'Day, J
• Publication Date: 1974-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • HIT Lab Reports
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Crash causes; Crash investigation; Data collection; Emergency response time; Fatalities; Federal assistance programs; Federal government; Information systems; Injuries; Reaction time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Federal programs
• Old TRIS Terms: Data systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00098845
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., HS-015 757, HS-016 576
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-031-2-350
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1983 12:00AM