Although there was a slight increase in vehicle miles traveled, the fatality rate per 100 million miles driven dropped to 1.18 in 2024, down from 1.24 in 2023.(NHTSA) On a more granular level, the most up-to-date reports reveal that an average of 3,836 car crash fatalities occurred per...
it’s difficult to make any conclusions because the pool of people that drive cars and trucks is significantly higher than those that fly. Therefore, we must look at some specific rates.
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This correlation rises as the proportion of VMT on highways rises, such that there is an inverse relationship with fatality rates when the highway share of county VMT is low and a direct relationship with fatality rates when the highway share of county VMT is high. Additionally, ...
For example, Kahane (1994, p. 4) writes that it is obvious that large differences in fatality rates between different cars “are due primarily to the types of people who drive them, rather than the real variation in crashworthiness.” His solution was to limit the range of accidents to ...
就道路类型而言,本研究仅将“表面道路”(surface streets)纳入分析,即所有不属于联邦公路管理局(FHWA 2023b)定义的“州际公路”(Interstates)或“其他快速路和高速公路”(Other Arterials – Other Freeways and Expressways)的道路。由于 Waymo RO 绝大多数里程和碰撞均发生在表面道路上,本研究仅考察这一道路类型下...
Self-reported race and ethnicity were recorded because fatality rates from motor vehicle crashes vary considerably across racial and ethnic groups.24 The other racial and ethnic group included small numbers of Asian, Native and Indigenous American, and Hispanic participants. Statistical Analysis ...
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response said in a news release that it has "deployed a team of fatality management and victim assistance specialists from the National Disaster Medical System" to respond to the midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. They say that ...
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The severity of a crash is often indicated by separate classes, such as property damage, probable injuries, capacitating injury, incapacitating injury, and fatality (Sattar et al., 2023). Some researchers, like Ma et al. (2018) and Mesa-Arango et al. (2018), looked at three levels of...