The U.S. Congress required the Secretary of Transportation to examine fatalities and injuries in backing crashes in Public Law Number 109-59, Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) Section 2012 and to transmit a report about such crashes by January 1, 2009. A backover is a crash which occurs when a driver reverses into and injures or kills a nonoccupant such as a pedestrian or a bicyclist. Backovers can occur either on a public roadway or not on a public roadway, i.e., in a driveway or in a parking lot. The former are called traffic backovers and the latter nontraffic backovers. There are also other backing crashes that are not backovers, i.e., they do not involve a pedestrian or other nonoccupant, that occur when, for example, a driver backs into a tree or pole or when a driver backs out of a driveway or parking space and is struck by another vehicle. Together, backover crashes and other backing crashes are referred to as backing crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations (NHTSA) existing Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and National Automotive Sampling System - General Estimates System (NASS-GES) already provide information regarding backing crashes that occur on public trafficways. However, data regarding nontraffic backovers (and other backing crashes), those which occur on private roads, driveways, and parking lots, have not routinely been collected by NHTSA. In response to SAFETEA-LU Sections 2012 and 10305 and Section 2(f) of the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007, NHTSA developed the Not in Traffic Surveillance (NiTS) system to collect information about all nontraffic crashes, including nontraffic backover crashes.


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    Title :

    Fatalities and Injuries in Motor Vehicle Backing Crashes (2000-2006). Report to Congress


    Contributors:
    R. Austin (author)

    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    42 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English