Pedestrian safety, the identification of precipitating factors and possible countermeasures : appendices.

Final report.PDFManuscriptFH-11-7312Pedestrian accidentsAccident causesCountermeasuresAccident investigationPedestrian safetyPreventionUnited StatesUnited States. National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationSnyder, Monroe B.Knoblauch, Richard L.Operations Research IncorporatedNTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-PedestriansNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-AccidentsNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human FactorsUS Transportation CollectionThe study objective was to identify causes and countermeasuresre levant to pedestrian accidents. Behaviora 1 and descriptive data werecollected by interviews and on-scene observations for over 2,000 pedestrianiccidents in 13 major cities. Subsequent analyses emphasized individualcase causation and accident type classification relevant to countermeasureimplementation. Cases were divided into accident types on the basis ofcausal factors and target groups, to provide a basis for countermeasureid'ontification. The five most frequent types accounted for over 50% of thesa nple cases. Countermeasures relevant to each accident type are discu;sed