This report details facts and figures relevant to a better understanding of possible causes of and prevention implications for deaths and serious injuries due to traffic crashes in the state of Michigan during the period January 1994 through December 1998. Select results in brief: Statistical analyses suggest that the performance goals selected by OHSP are appropriate. Michigan experienced a general decline in the proportion of fatal or serious-injury (KA) crashing from 1994 to 1998, however, this decline is smaller than it has been in the past and may foreshadow an upswing in crashes. It is reasonable to target male drivers age 21-34 years in particular to help OHSP achieve its traffic safety goals. The summer months remain good targets for program efforts, but we may need to revisit programs during May and December because of recent increases in crashes during these months. The vast majority of KA crashes occur on city/county roads, thus it is rational to continue to focus efforts on reducing the KA crash count on these city/county roads. By far the largest vehicle group involved in KA crashes is passenger cars. Because of the hazard drivers age 14-18 present to themselves and others as demonstrated by their crash rates, this is an important, if small, target group. Drivers age 70 and over represent only 10% of all KA crash cases and do not have higher crash rates than the 'average' driver, and thus are not a promising target group for achieving the overall traffic safety goals set by OHSP. Males age 21-34 have the largest number of crashes and higher rate of KA-HBD 'had been drinking' crash involvement. The largest reductions in KA-HBD crashes have occurred on months and days that have had the historic highs. The effect seems to be toward leveling off month-to-month, day-to-day variation. This may mean that we are beginning to see the boundaries of the 'hard-core' problem with respect to KA-HBD crashes. There are as many pedestrians that experience KA injury in crashes as rear-seat occupants (about 1,000 each year).


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    Title :

    Michigan Fatal and Serious Injury Traffic-Crash Patterns: 1994-1998


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    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    122 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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