Comprehensive and human capital crash costs by maximum police-reported injury severity within selected crash types.

Author(s)
Zaloshnja, E. Miller, T.R. Council, F. & Persaud, B.
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Abstract

This paper presents estimates for both the economic and comprehensive costs per crash for three police-coded severity groupings within 16 selected crash types and within two speed limit categories (<=45 and >=50 mph). The economic costs are hard dollar costs. The comprehensive costs include economic costs and quality of life losses. We merged previously developed costs per victim keyed on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) into US crash data files that scored injuries in both the AIS and police-coded severity scales to produce per crash estimates. The most costly crashes were nonintersection fatal/disabling injury crashes on a road with a speed limit of 50 miles per hour or higher where multiple vehicles crashed headon or a single vehicle struck a human (over 1.69 and $1.16 million per crash, respectively). The annual cost of police-reported run-offroad collisions, which include both rollovers and object impacts, represented 34% of total costs. (Author/publisher)

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20041797 p ST (In: ST 20041797 CD-ROM)
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In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Key Biscayne, Florida, September 13-15, 2004, p. 251-263, 16 ref.

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