A special analysis was conducted as a part of a major accident causation study to assess the validity of police-reported traffic accident data. Information theory and signal detection theory techniques were used to assess police data reliability by comparing it with MDAI and Level II (technical level) data collected during the Tri-Level Study of Accident Causation. Results indicate the accident level variables reported by the police with least reliability were vertical road character, accident severity, and road surface composition. The most reliably reported data were those concerned with the accident location, date, and number of drivers, passengers, and vehicles. The informativeness of the police reports with respect to driver/vehicle characteristics was practically nil, with the exception of driver age, sex, and vehicle model for which the police were correct most of the time (but not errorless). It was also found that police reports provided very little information regarding the presence of different human conditions and states, vehicle defects and environmental/road deficiencies.


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    Titel :

    Tri-Level Study: Modification Task 3: Validity Assessment of Police-Reported Accident Data


    Beteiligte:
    D. Shinar (Autor:in) / J. R. Treat (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1977


    Format / Umfang :

    110 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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