PEDESTRIAN INJURY CAUSATION STUDY (PICS)

The TSR-PICS team completed in-depth investigations of 460 vehicle versus pedestrian accidents between April 1977 and June 1980. Eligible vehicles were passenger cars, vans and light-duty pickup trucks. Accidents were selected for in-depth investigation if they occurred during an on-call period of the systematic random sampling plan or if they resulted in a fatality. In addition, a data base was compiled that consisted of all (1,288) vehicle/pedestrian accidents that were eligible under the study definition of a pedestrian accident. The study area included the cities of Campbell, Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, California. On-call field personnel were alerted to current accidents by a radio-pager system. Accidents that were missed by the routine notification system were discovered during follow-up checks of police-reported vehicle/pedestrian accidents and periodic reviews of injury accident listing in a county computer file.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Portions of this document are not fully legible.
• Corporate Authors:

  Traffic Safety Research Corporation

  1010 Corporation Way
  Palo Alto, CA  United States  94303

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Schmidt, D N
  • Ravani, B
  • Brougham, D
• Publication Date: 1980-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 123 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Crash causes; Crash investigation; Data collection; Injuries; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrian vehicle interface; Pedestrians; Pickup trucks; Sampling; Statistical sampling; Traffic conflicts; Traffic crashes; Trucks; Vans
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Pickups
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Motor Carriers; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00328844
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSR-2105 Final Rpt., HS-805 650
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-7-01581
• Files: HSL, NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 15 1982 12:00AM