COMPACT CAR ACCIDENT STUDY. GARDEN STATE PARKWAY: JANUARY 1958 - JUNE 1969

GARDEN STATE PARKWAY STATISTICS FOR JANUARY 1958-JUNE1969 SHOW THAT 35% OF ALL CARS USING THE PARKWAY WERE COMPACTS WHICH WERE INVOLVED IN 24% OF ALL ACCIDENTS. HOWEVER,, 36.8% OF ALL INJURIES, 41.2% OF DRIVER FATALITIES, AND 33.3% OF PASSENGER FATALITIES OCCURRED IN COMPACTS. SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENTS OCCURRED WITH 27.3% OF THE STANDARD-SIZE CARS, AND 38.2% OF THE COMPACTS. ONLY 2.4% OF THE STANDARD CARS OVER-TURNED, WHILE 9.4% OF THE COMPACTS DID. VOLKSWAGEN HAD MORE OVERTURNS (27.6%) THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE MAKE. SLIPPERY ROADS ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT A QUARTER OF THE ACCIDENTS. DATA FROM 1969 SHOWED 39.2% OF STANDARD-SIZE CAR DRIVERS AND 61.7% OF COMPACT CAR DRIVERS ARE UNDER 30 YEARS OLD. ONLY ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ALL ACCIDENT-INVOLVED DRIVERS ARE WEARING SEAT BELTS. TABULATED STATISTICS ALSO INCLUDE: TYPE OF ACCIDENT; INJURIES BY LOCATION OF PERSON IN THE CAR; VEHICLES LEAVING THE ROADWAY; ROAD SURFACE CONDITIONS; VOLKSWAGEN INVOLVEMENT; TRAFFIC AND ACCIDENT EXPOSURE; AND CAR AND ACCIDENT SURVEY BY 6 VEHICLE CLASSES SUBDIVIDED BY MAKE OF CAR. /HSL/

• Corporate Authors:

  New Jersey Department of Transportation

  1035 Parkway Avenue
  Trenton, NJ  United States  08625
• Publication Date: 1969-11-7

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compact automobiles; Crash rates; Crash types; Injuries; Overturning; Single vehicle crashes
• Old TRIS Terms: Small car
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223249
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Report/Paper Numbers: 28 pp
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 23 1970 12:00AM