PATTERNS OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS AND HUMAN ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS
THIS PAPER DESCRIBES INVOLVEMENT PATTERNS AND HUMAN ENGINEERING SOLUTION FOR A NUMBER OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS. THE TYPE DESCRIPTIONS WERE DERIVED FROM A STUDY OF OVER 2100 INDIVIDUAL ACCIDENT CASES. THE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS PRESENTED ARE THOSE THAT APPEAR MOST PROMISING FOR IMMEDIATE REDUCTION IN THE ALMOST 200,000 ACCIDENTS TO WHICH THEY APPLY EACH YEAR. FIVE FREQUENT TYPES ACCOUNT FOR OVER 50% OF URBAN PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS: DARTING OUT IN TRAFFIC, USUALLY INVOLVING CHILDREN; DARTING ACROSS MORE THAN HALFWAY BEFORE BEING STRUCK; INTERSECTION DASH; MULTIPLE THREAT; VEHICLE TURN OR MERGE WITH ATTENTION CONFLICT. /HSL/
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Snyder, M B
- Publication Date: 1971
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 15 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adolescents; Case studies; Human factors engineering; Human factors engineering; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Prevention; Safety
- Old TRIS Terms: Minors
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00221721
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Aug 3 1972 12:00AM