Updated Ratio of Crash Severities Reportable to the MCMIS Crash File

The Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) Crash file has been developed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to serve as a census file of trucks and buses involved in traffic crashes meeting a specific crash severity threshold. Each state is responsible for identifying cases that meet the MCMIS Crash file criteria and reporting the required data through the SafetyNet system. UMTRI has completed a set of evaluations of state reporting and found that reporting rates range from over 80 percent to less than 10. The present report provides an updated model to predict, given a known number of fatal involvements, the number of crash involvements a state should be reporting. Additional observations became available since the previous report. These observations are incorporated and the model re-estimated. In each state, the number of fatal involvements is well-known, so all states will start with a known quantity, the number of fatal truck and bus crash involvements. It is then hypothesized that the ratio of reportable crash severities, that is, the ratio of fatal involvements to nonfatal involvements, will apply across all the states. Data from 11 states (representing 13 observations) that provide all the information necessary to identify MCMIS-reportable cases were used. A weighted log-linear model is fit to MCMIS data for the states that have information recorded for both fatal and nonfatal crashes. The model is then used to estimate the number of nonfatal crashes for a new state in which only the number of fatal crashes is known. Prediction intervals are presented.

• Record URL:
  • http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61822
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

  2901 Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109-2150

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Green, Paul E
  • Blower, Daniel
• Publication Date: 2008-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Special Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 24p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus crashes; Crash data; Crash severity; Highway safety; Ratios; Truck crashes; Trucking safety
• Identifier Terms: Motor Carrier Management Information System Crash File
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01125357
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTRI-2008-52
• Contract Numbers: DTMC75-06-H-00003
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 30 2009 1:35PM