CAUSAL MAPPING OF OVERTAKING ACCIDENTS

Research on overtaking accidents is summarised. An approach to characterising the cause of overtaking accidents is then describe which involved the use of police files together with more in-dept 'prose accounts' interpreted by human coders. The method used is described and the results analysed. Accidents were categorised a right turn, b) head on, c) side swipe, d) cutting in, e) return a lose control, f) intersecton, g) nearside and h) miscellaneous/avoidance. Accidents were considered to be due to poor observation, b) inexperience, c) misjudgement and d) excess speed. An analysis by age showed the 'risky manoeuvres' specific particular age groups. For the covering abstract see IRRD 873938

• Corporate Authors:

  TRL

  Crowthorne House, Nine Mile Ride
  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom  RG40 3GA
• Authors:
  • Clarke, D D
  • Ward, P J
  • Jones, J
• Conference:
  • BEHAVIOURAL RESEARCH IN ROAD SAFETY V. PROCEEDINGS OF A SEMINAR NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY 6-7 SEPTEMBER 1994
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 55-70
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: PA 30

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Conferences; Crashes; Data banks; Passing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1757: Age; 9003: Cause; 8525: Conference; 8614: Database; 1822: Overtaking
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00715867
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD,
• Created Date: Jan 31 2003 12:00AM