TRUCKS INVOLVED IN FATAL ACCIDENTS CODEBOOK 1995 (VERSION MARCH 4, 1997)

This report provides one-way frequencies for all vehicles in UMTRI's file of Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents, 1995. The TIFA database provides coverage of all medium and heavy trucks recorded in the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) file. TIFA combines vehicle, accident, and occupant records from FARS with information about the physical configuration and operating authority of the truck from the TIFA survey. Some sampling was done in selecting cases for the file. All cases in which the truck driver was killed were sampled with certainty. Half the cases where the FARS body type and vehicle trailering variables indicated the vehicle was a straigh truck with no trailer or a tractor with one trailer were taken. All other cases coded as a truck in the FARS body type variable were taken.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

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

  Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning

  300 S Washington Square, Suite 300
  Lansing, MI  United States  48913
• Authors:
  • Blower, D
  • Pettis, L
• Publication Date: 1997-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 128 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fatalities; Heavy duty trucks; Medium trucks; Truck crashes; Trucks; Vehicle design
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Motor Carriers; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00739840
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTRI-97-10,, HS-042 220
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-96-C-0038
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 7 1997 12:00AM