SAFETY EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL ACCIDENT SAMPLING SYSTEM

The report includes an evaluation of the National Accident Sampling System (NASS) being administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NASS, as proposed, is a nationwide system of investigative teams whose goal is to collect nationally representative highway accident data. The major findings of the evaluation are: nationally representative highway accident data are needed; if attained, NASS' publicly stated objectives will provide valuable information to the nation's highway safety program; the NASS' plan for the near future emphasizes motor vehicle crashworthiness and primarilly supports NHTSA's mission; the NASS program alone with provide limited capability for evaluating many countermeasures; the implementation of NASS has proceeded beyond the level of planning; and through improved planning and broader perspective NASS could become an important part of the national highway safety program. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  Bureau of Plans and Programs
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1978-3-2

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References;
• Pagination: 38 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash reports; Crashworthiness; Highway safety; Motor vehicles; Sampling
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00179726
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-SEE-78-1
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 12 1978 12:00AM