Safety Board Calls Speeding 'National Safety Issue'

This article reports on a recent study by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that focused on the causes of speed-related crashes among passenger vehicles and the countermeasures to prevent them. The study defined speeding-related crashes as ones in which a law enforcement officer indicated that a vehicle’s speed was a contributing factor. The study also examined underused or ineffectively used countermeasures, such as communities' use of automated enforcement and vehicle-based intelligent speed adaptation systems. The NTSB study included a literature survey; analyses of speeding-related crash data; and interviews with national, state and local traffic safety stakeholders. This study resulted in the issuance of 19 safety recommendations designed to address the problem of speed-related crashes. Some of the recommendations are specific to strategies to help protect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. Readers are referred to a link to access the full 97-page National Transportation Safety Board research paper (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS1701.pdf ) as well as to recent IIHS studies related to speeding.

• Record URL:
  http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/52/7/3
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• Publication Date: 2017-10-19

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Photos; References;
• Pagination: n.p.
• Serial:
  • Status Report
  • Volume: 52
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
  • ISSN: 0018-988X
  • Serial URL: https://www.iihs.org/status-report/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated enforcement; Crash causes; Crash data; Intelligent speed adaptation; Speed limits; Speeding
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01652174
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 29 2017 10:00AM