MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION-PEDESTRIAN INVOLVEMENT

The Houston Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation team investigated a total of 175 collisions involving pedestrians and motor vehicles which occurred in the City of Houston, Texas between June, 1971 and May, 1973. In addition, several years' data collected by the Houston Police was also obtained, analyzed for trends and compared to the team collected information. The overall data were used to describe factors such as the pedestrians and drivers involved in the accident event; the variations in frequencies by season, day of week, time of day; variation in pedestrain accident rates for different districts of the city; pedestrian and vehicle actions prior to the collisions; etc.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Houston

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Houston, TX  United States  77004
• Authors:
  • THARP, K J
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 125 p.

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057895
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-087-1-117
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Nov 12 1974 12:00AM