TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT RATES BY DRIVER AGE AND GENDER

Passenger-vehicle travel data from the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey were combined with crash data from the 1990 Fatal Accident Reporting System and the 1990 General Estimates System to produce crash involvement rates per vehicle-mile of travel. Elevated rates were observed for drivers aged 16-19 and 75 and over. The oldest drivers had the highest fatal involvement rate, while the youngest drivers had the highest rate of involvement in all police-reported crashes. Men had a higher risk than women of experiencing a fatal crash, while women had higher rates of involvement in injury crashes and all police-reported crashes.

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• Authors:
  • Massie, D L
  • Campbell, K L
  • Williams, A F
• Publication Date: 1995-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 73-87
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Crash analysis; Crash rates; Drivers; Fatalities; Gender; Injuries; Medical case reports; Traffic crashes
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System; Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age
• Old TRIS Terms: Injury case reports
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00676778
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 934
• Files: HSL, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 3 1995 12:00AM