There were 1,020 fatal traffic accidents on California freeways in 1988. These resulted in the deaths of 1,126 people. This was an increase of 4 fatal accidents and a decrease of 24 fatalities from 1987. Freeway travel during the same time increased 6% to over 100 billion vehicle miles. The 1988 fatality rate of 1.12 people killed per 100 million vehicle miles (MVM) of travel was 7% lower than the 1.21 rate in 1987. Five accident types increased in 1988 and four decreased numerically. The major accident type increases involved construction zone (14), wrong-way (10), and rear-end accidents (10). The major reduction was 18 for miscellaneous accidents. There were 4 (1%) more hit-fixed-object accidents and few other changes from 1987.


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    Titel :

    Freeway Fatal Accidents, 1988


    Beteiligte:
    D. W. Howell (Autor:in) / C. D. Cutler (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1991


    Format / Umfang :

    48 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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