Estimates of the economic and human consequences of motor vehicle accidents in Virginia

The 1980 Crash Facts shows that 1,045 people were killed and 58,036 injured-in the 116,382 motor vehicle crashes that occurred in Virginia during 1980. Crash Facts estimates that these accidents imposed an economic loss of $90,000,000. The death and injury figures are disaggregated in many ways, but two statistics are missing. First, the economic loss is not divided into its component parts. Rigorous analysis requires that the separate components of economic loss be identified and estimated before they are summed into a single estimate. Second, little attempt is made to describe the severity of the crash victims' injuries. An investigation into these injuries would not only improve the cost estimate, it also would help place the traffic safety problem in the human context of pain and suffering rather than the abstract terms of dollars and cents. This report is an attempt to derive the two missing statistics.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/82-r48.pdf
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• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • "March 1982."
• Corporate Authors:

  Virginia Department of Transportation Safety

  300 Turner Road
  Richmond, VA  United States  23225

  Virginia Highway and Transportation Research Council

  Charlottesville, VA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Regan, Daniel John
• Publication Date: 1982

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Bibliography;
• Pagination: ix, 16 p. ;
• Serial:
  • VHTRC ;

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: Virginia
• Subject Areas: Finance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01118504
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Virginia Transportation Research Council
• Report/Paper Numbers: VHTRC 82-R48, VHTRC ;
• Files: VTRC, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 19 2009 12:55PM