MANUAL ON CLASSIFICATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. SECOND EDITION

THIS REVISION INCORPORATES NEW MATERIAL AND MAKES SOME CHANGES IN FORMER PROCEDURES WHICH ARE NECESSARY DUE TO THE RECENT CHANGES IN ACCIDENT PATTERNS WITH THE ADVENT OF FREEWAYS. ADDED ARE A SECTION ON SEVERITY OF DAMAGE AND AN EXPANDED SECTION ON HIGHWAY LOCATION OF THE ACCIDENT. IMPORTANT REVISIONS ARE MADE IN THE BASIC CLASSIFICATION BY TYPE OF ACCIDENT, DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EMPHASIS TO ACCIDENT TYPES WHICH ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY NUMEROUS. /HSRI/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Tad Proj TeCH BULL NO 2, 84 PP, FIGS
• Corporate Authors:

  NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

  CHICAGO, IL  United States 
• Publication Date: 1970

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Crash analysis; Crash types; Freeways; Manuals; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221263
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 16 1971 12:00AM