NHTSA'S FATAL ACCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEM
Accurate, reliable, and complete highway-traffic accident data are critical to well-planned and effective safety programs at the national, state, and community levels. Unfortunately, traffic safety program managers have been seriously handicapped by the lack of adequate data for planning and evaluation purposes. Complete data on all fatal traffic accidents, personal injury accidents, and property damage accidents would provide valuable information for safety program development. Current accident records systems, however, simply do not provide these complete data bases. This article describes the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS), administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). It is generally accepted as the most complete data base for fatal traffic accidents available today. The present file permits a variety of analyses not possible a few years ago. The Transportation Research Board considers this system a significant development in the national effort to improve the collection, analysis, and use of traffic accident data. (Editor)
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Authors:
- Sebastian, A A
- Flemons, D M
- Publication Date: 1981
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 5-9
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Serial:
- Transportation Research News
- Issue Number: 97
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0738-6826
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash reports; Data analysis; Databases; Fatalities; Information processing; Information systems; Mathematical analysis
- Old TRIS Terms: Data systems
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00345286
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-032 797
- Files: HSL, TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Jan 29 1982 12:00AM