The comprehensive costs presented here are appropriate for use in benefit-cost analysis. The costs/police-reported crash are $2,723,000/K-fatal, $229,000/A-incapacitating injury, $48,000/B-nonincapacitating injury, $25,000/C-possible injury, $4,500/0-property damage only (these crashes include injuries missed by the police), and $4,300/unreported crash. The most costly kinds of crashes include motorcycle, pedestrian, pedalcycle, alcohol-involved, and heavy truck. Minor rural collectors, local rural streets, and urban arterials are the most dangerous/vehicle-mile of travel (vmt). Motorcycles have safety costs of $2.14/vmt, buses $.24/vmt, heavy trucks $.19/vmt, light trucks $.16/vmt, and cars $.12/vmt. In nonfatal collisions involving only occupants, the most harmful events with the highest cost/injury involve, in order: trees, overturns, other fixed objects, and utility poles.
Costs of Highway Crashes
1991
152 pages
Report
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English
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