Crash Records
Crash records are used to measure and compare transportation safety across states, to design countermeasures, and to guide decision-making. This data is most useful when it is reliable, accurate, and consistent. Improvements to traffic safety data collection and management practices will make this data more robust and useful. However, for most road agencies, data collection is a secondary responsibility after ensuring public safety and assisting survivors. Many local and especially rural agencies lack funding and staff to dedicate to data collection and management.
This section provides guidelines and best practices for enhancing the accuracy and consistency of crash records.
Training
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Created: Wednesday December 15th, 2021
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Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Road User, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Crash Records, Cross Jurisdictional Safety Planning, Driver Behavior, Highway Safety Improvement Program (HISP), Human Factors, Injury Prevention, Low Cost Countermeasures, Road Departure, Road Safety Audits, Roadside Design/Safety, Safety Countermeasures, Safety Data, Safety Plans, Systemic Safety
2021 Fall Webinar Series: Empowering the New Mobility Workforce hosted by the National Network for the Transportation Workforce.
Safety is everyone’s job, bu ... [ Read More » ]
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Created: Thursday December 9th, 2021
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Source: National Association of State Emergency Medical Service Officials
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Topic: EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Access to EMS Data, Crash Records, Enforcement Laws and Policies, Incident Management, Location of Trauma Centers, Low Cost Countermeasures, Safety Countermeasures, Safety Data
Webinar Series Description
No doubt you have been hearing the terms Safe System Approach and Traffic Safety Culture over the past few years, but are you also wo ... [ Read More » ]
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Rural Safety Center) is hosted a FREE, 1.5-hour online webinar.
Webinar Description
This webinar featured an overview ... [ Read More » ]
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Created: Thursday April 16th, 2020
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Source: Champaign County, Ohio
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Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Road User, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Crash Records, Road Departure, Safety Data, Safety Plans
Rural roadway departures make up a third of U.S. traffic fatalities—about 30 people a day. The Every Day Counts round five (EDC-5) initiative, Focus on Reduci ... [ Read More » ]
Technical Guide/Manual
The DDSA Crash Tree Tool allows users to generate crash tree diagrams based on the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) or other crash datasets. Cras ... [ Read More » ]
Training
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center) hosted a FREE, 1.5-hour online webinar.
Webinar Description
Have you ever been tasked with a safety-re ... [ Read More » ]
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Created: Tuesday August 1st, 2017
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Source: Rutgers - Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
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Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Crash Records, Cross Jurisdictional Safety Planning, Enforcement Laws and Policies, Incident Management, Organization Culture, Public Service Announcements/Marketing Campaigns, Safety Performance Measures and Monitoring
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center) is hosted a FREE, 1.5-hour online webinar.
Webinar Description
This webinar provided an overview ... [ Read More » ]
Posted on Thursday July 6th, 2017
Imagine – a car approaching an intersection tries to avoid a large object in the road, swerves out of the way and hits a lamppost, causing serious damage. Then the car bounces back into the roadway and whereby ...
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Fact Sheet
This rural/urban comparison provides:
an overview
time of day
speeding
alcohol
restraint use
rollover crashes
driver characteristics
nonoccupants
fatalities by ... [ Read More » ]
Training
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center) hosted a FREE, 1.5-hour online webinar.
Webinar Description
This webinar provided an overview of the e ... [ Read More » ]
Fact Sheet
“This fact sheet contains information on fatal motor vehicle crashes and fatalities, based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). FAR ... [ Read More » ]
Website
This website provides technical assistance and training programs that can help States build traffic safety data collection, management, and analysis capacity in ... [ Read More » ]
Training
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NH ... [ Read More » ]
Toolbox-kit
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Created: Wednesday December 21st, 2016
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Source: Federal Highway Administration
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Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Road User, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Crash Records, Safety Data, Safety Performance Measures and Monitoring, Safety Plans
The Roadway Safety Data Program Toolbox contains resources that will help your organization build a new or strengthen an existing roadway safety data program ... [ Read More » ]
“Whether you are a safety data guru, a junior analyst, or somewhere in between, the Roadway Safety Data Program (RSDP) Toolbox is for you! The Toolbox is ... [ Read More » ]
Research Report
“For highways located in different counties and cities across the country, specific conditions of weather, terrain, traffic characteristics, highway condi ... [ Read More » ]
Press Release
This NHTSA press release from August 2016 discusses the call to action issued by the White House and DOT to data scientists and public health experts as 2,348 m ... [ Read More » ]
Fact Sheet
NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis has been producing annual estimates of lives saved since 1975. This fact sheet contains finding for 2015 b ... [ Read More » ]
This Research Note provides a brief overview of the 2015 fatal crash picture using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Ana ... [ Read More » ]
Website
This FHWA website provides crash modification factors (CMF), as well as, guides for how to use and/or develop CMF.
“A crash modification factor (CMF) is a ... [ Read More » ]
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Posted: Tuesday April 5th, 2016
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Topic: Education, EMS, Enforcement, Engineering, Road, Road User, Safety Culture
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Sub-Topic: Crash Records, Highway Safety Improvement Program (HISP), Road Safety Audits, Safety Data, Safety Plans, Systemic Safety
“Data-Driven Safety Analysis is the application of the latest generation of tools for analyzing crash and roadway data. This video gives an overview of th ... [ Read More » ]
Training
The National Center for Rural Road Safety (Safety Center) hosted a FREE, 1.5-hour online webinar.
Webinar Description
This webinar providee information on:
... [ Read More » ]
Press Release
This is a NHTSA press release from February 2016 describing the early fatality estimates for 2015 data, the steep increase in deaths, and describing NHTSA’ ... [ Read More » ]
Fact Sheet
“A statistical projection of traffic fatalities for the first nine months of 2015 shows that an estimated 26,000 people died in motor vehicle traffic cras ... [ Read More » ]
In this fact sheet, the 2013 rural and urban information is presented in the following order:
Overview
Time of Day
Speeding
Alcohol
Restraint Use
Rollover Cras ... [ Read More » ]
Technical Guide/Manual
“This guidebook provides State departments of transportation (DOT) and metropolitan planning organization (MPO) planners with a framework for navigating t ... [ Read More » ]
Research Report
Crashes are random events and low traffic volumes therefore don’t always make crash hot-spot identification possible. This project has used extensive data col ... [ Read More » ]
Noteworthy Practice
“This State Traffic Records Coordinating Committee Noteworthy Practices Guide was developed under the direction of the USDOT|TRCC as a way to help State T ... [ Read More » ]
Fact Sheet
This fact sheet uses 2013 data. The following definitions apply to terms used throughout this fact sheet: Motorcycles are defined as mopeds, two- or three-wheel ... [ Read More » ]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) 2015 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics highlights the Agency’s role in enforcement an ... [ Read More » ]
“The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS), conducted from 2005 to 2007, was aimed at collecting on-scene information about the events an ... [ Read More » ]
This fact sheet contains a rural/urban comparison of statistics on motor vehicle fatal crashes based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). ... [ Read More » ]
Technical Guide/Manual
Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) is a law enforcement operational model supported by a partnership among the Department of Transporta ... [ Read More » ]
Research Report
“This study examines changes over time in the numbers and rates of police-reported crashes involving passenger vehicles (cars, pickup trucks, vans, miniva ... [ Read More » ]
Fact Sheet
“This Research Brief provides updated statistics on rates of crashes, injuries and death per mile driven in relation to driver age based on the most recen ... [ Read More » ]
Technical Guide/Manual
“This Research Brief provides updated statistics on rates of crashes, injuries and death per mile driven in relation to driver age based on the most recen ... [ Read More » ]
General Report
“This Research Brief provides updated statistics on rates of crashes, injuries and death per mile driven in relation to driver age based on the most recen ... [ Read More » ]
