THE ESTIMATED DIRECT COSTS (1970) OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ON INDIANA RURAL STATE HIGHWAYS

THIS REPORT IS ABOUT A COST STUDY OF MOTOR-VEHICLE ACCIDENTS ON RURAL STATE HIGHWAYS IN INDIANA. THE STUDY USED THE RECORDS OF ALL REPORTED ACCIDENTS ON SUCH HIGHWAYS FOR THE YEARS 1967 AND 1968. THE ACCIDENTS WERE ANALYZED STATISTICALLY AND CLASSIFIED INTO GROUPS BASED ON SEVERITY, EXPOSURE, VEHICLE TYPE, ETC. SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ACCIDENTS IN SUCH GROUPS WERE ALSO ANALYZED. ESTIMATES OF THE DIRECT COST (1970) OF REPORTED ACCIDENTS WERE DEVELOPED. FOR ACCIDENT-SEVERITY CLASSES (1) FATAL, (2) NONFATAL NJURY, (3) PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY, AND (4) ALL CLASSES THE TOTAL DIRECT COSTS PER ACCIDENT IN 1970 DOLLARS WERE (1) 8,605, (2) 4,280, (3) 606, AND (4) 2,433, RESPECTIVELY. FINALLY, THE COSTS OF UNREPORTED ACCIDENTS WERE ESTIMATED AT 15% OF THE TOTAL ACCIDENT COSTS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 20, 34 PP, 1 FIG, 20 TAB, 9 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University/Indiana Department of Transportation JHRP

  Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-1284
• Authors:
  • Hejal, S S
  • Michael, H L
• Publication Date: 1970-10

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Crash severity; Crashes; Estimates; Fatalities; Forecasting; Injuries; Loss and damage; Property; Rural highways; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Accident costs; Property damage
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221239
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 1971 12:00AM