THE ASSOCIATION OF ACCIDENT SEVERITY AND FREQUENCY WITH VEHICLE AGE

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF VEHICLE AGE WITH CRASH FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY IS PRESENTED.. SAMPLES OF VEHICLES INVOLVED IN CRASHES AND CONTROL SAMPLES FROM THE TOTAL VEHICLE POPULATIONS WERE SELECTED FROM THREE MICHIGAN COUNTIES. THE CRASH SAMPLES WERE CLASSIFIED INTO FATAL CRASHES, SEVERE INJURY CRASHES, AND MINOR CRASHES. STATISTICAL COMPARISONS AMONG THESE SAMPLES HAVE REVEALED THAT THE THREE POPULATIONS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED DIFFERENTLY WITH RESPECT TO AGE. FURTHER COMPARISONS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE CRASH POPULATIONS AND CONTROL POPULATIONS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED DIFFERENTLY WITH RESPECT TO AGE. THESE DATA AND ANALYSES FAIL TO SUPPORT EITHER THE NOTION THAT VEHICLES BECOME MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CRASHES AS THEY AGE, OR THE NOTION THAT THE LEVEL OF DAMAGE, GIVEN A CRASH OCCURS, INCREASES WITH VEHICLE AGE. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 2, No 1, PP 35-55
• Authors:
  • Little, J W
  • Hall, W K
• Publication Date: 1970-5

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 35-55
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Correlation analysis; Crash injury research; Crash rates; Crash severity; Crashes; Loss and damage; Research; Statistical analysis; Vehicle characteristics
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221099
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 18 1971 12:00AM