Traffic Safety Facts 1996 - a Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatal Accident Reporting System and the General Estimates SystemRicardo Martinez |
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100.0 Large Truck 100.0 Light Truck 500 or less 9 pm Alcohol Concentration BAC alcohol test results assigned by NHTSA BAC values Blood Alcohol Concentration Crash Severity Total Crash Type Crashes Front Day of Week deciliter Emergency Medical Services Fatal Crashes Fatal Injury Property Fatality and Injury Fatality Rate GVWR Harmful Event Hatchback Helmet use required Initial Point Injury Crashes Injury Property Damage Injury Rates Injury Severity Involved in Crashes Involved in Fatal Killed or Injured less than 0.05 Less than 500 motor vehicle Motorhome NCSA NHTSA when alcohol Noncollision Nonmotorist Number Percent Number Occupants Injured Occupants Killed Other/Unknown Pedestrians Killed Percent Number Percent Person Type Persons Killed persons under 18 Point of Impact Population Property-Damage-Only Crashes Puerto Rico Rate per 100 Registered Vehicles Repealed effective Restraint results are unknown riders Secondary $25 Front Single Vehicle standard error Table Total Killed trafficway Vehicle in Transport Vehicle Miles Traveled Vehicle Type
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Page 3 - FARS, which became operational in 1975, contains data on a census of fatal traffic crashes within the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. To be included in FARS, a crash must involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public, and must result in the death of an occupant of a vehicle or a nonmotorist within 30 days of the crash.
Page 183 - The various stages involved in the acquisition of a nuclear reactor by a utility. The events that define these stages are the ordering of a reactor, the licensing process, and the physical construction of the nuclear generating unit. A reactor is said to be "in the pipeline...
Page 185 - Manner of Collision A classification for crashes in which the first harmful event was a collision between two motor vehicles in transport and is described as one of the following: Angle.
Page 5 - GES data are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes To be eligible for the GES sample, a police accident report must be completed and the crash must involve at least one motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway and result in property damage, injury, or death...
Page 5 - Although various sources suggest that about half the motor vehicle crashes in the country are not reported to police, the majority of these unreported crashes involve only minor property damage and no significant personal injury. By restricting attention to policereported crashes, the GES concentrates on those crashes of greatest concern to the highway safety community and the general public. GES data...
Page 186 - Pedalcyclists, 3) Occupants of parked motor vehicles, 4) Others such as joggers, skateboard riders, people riding on animals, and persons riding in animal-drawn conveyances.
Page 185 - The event during a crash for a particular vehicle that is judged to have produced the greatest personal injury or property damage.
Page 183 - NHTSA defines a fatal crash as alcohol-related or alcohol-involved if either a driver or a nonmotorist (usually a pedestrian) had a measurable or estimated blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.01 grams per deciliter (g/dl) or above.
Page 183 - Injury Crash. A police-reported crash that involves a motor vehicle in transport on a trafficway in which no one died but at least one person was reported to have: (1) an incapacitating injury; (2) a visible but not incapacitating injury; (3) a possible, not visible injury; or (4) an injury of unknown severity. 3.