The role of lighting in road traffic collisions
The paper reports a study that examines how to determine if a road traffic collision took place in daylight or in the dark. An innovative method was developed, based on solar altitude, to establish cut-off points of daylight and darkness determined from a study of daylight availability in England, Scotland and Wales. This approach provides a rigorous method to differentiate daytime and night-time collisions. The criteria were used in a study of the collisions reported in the STATS19 data set for the weeks either side of the clock changes that are necessary between Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time. By comparing periods with the same clock time either side of the time change, using the aforementioned method, it was possible to isolate collisions within the same time period that during one week occurred in darkness and in the other week in daylight. The initial finding was that there are 19.3% more collisions in the dark periods and there is an even greater increase (31.7%) in pedestrian injuries.
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- © The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 2019.
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Authors:
- Raynham MSc, P
- Unwin PhD, J
- Khazova MSc, M
- Tolia MSc, S
- Publication Date: 2020-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 485-494
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Serial:
- Lighting Research and Technology
- Volume: 52
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
- ISSN: 1477-1535
- Serial URL: http://lrt.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash injuries; Crash rates; Daylight; Night; Pedestrian safety; Time alteration; Time of crashes; Traffic crashes
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01742527
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 16 2020 4:24PM