This is the latest report in a series documenting five-year trends in Michigan traffic crashes. This report provides background information necessary for the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning to set and evaluate traffic safety goals and to prioritise program efforts. In prior years, this report was quite a large document that many readers found unwieldy. Readers also noted that they were satisfied with the information presented in the executive summary representing the most relevant findings from the complete set of analyses. The goal of this year's report is to present findings from those analyses sufficiently relevant to have been summarised in the executive summary of reports from previous years. The significantly longer and more detailed portion of the report from previous years has been omitted to increase useability of the report and the findings detailed within. The most significant areas for improving traffic safety in Michigan include: (i) alcohol-impaired driving; (ii) crashes involving inappropriate driver behaviour like speeding, following too close; (iii) occupant restraint use; (iv) roadway safety issues like intersection safety, red light running; (v) male drivers age 16-20; (vi) male drivers age 21-34; (vii) crashes on city/county roads; (viii) crashes during peak travel seasons; (ix) the growing elderly driver population; and (x) vehicle occupants age 0-15. (Author/publisher)
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