Highway safety performance 1983

fatal and injury accident rates on public roads in the United States. Report to the Secretary of Transportation to the United States Congress pursuant to Section 207 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-424).
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This report was prepared pursuant to Section 207 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-424) which reads as follows: Sec. 207. The Secretary of Transportation shall prepare, publish, and submit to Congress not later than December 31 of each calendar year beginning after December 31, 1982, a report on the highway safety performance of each State in the preceding calendar year. Such report shall provide data on highway fatalities and injuries and motor vehicle accidents involving fatalities and injuries and travel in urban areas of each State for each system of highways and in rural areas of such State for each system of highways. - Such report shall be in such form and contain such other information on highway accidents as will permit an evaluation and comparison of highway safety performance of the States. For purposes of this section (1) the systems of highways in a State are the Federal-aid primary system, the Federal-aid secondary system, the Federal-aid urban system, and the Interstate System (aa such terms are defined in section 101 of Title 23, United States Code) and the other highways in such State which are not on the Federal-aid system, and (2) the terms '"State," "rural areas," and "urban area' have the meaning such terms have under such section 101. This is the second report to Congress under Section 207. The reports contain an extension of a series of statistical data published annually since 1967 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as "Fatal and Injury Accident Rates on Federal-Aid and Other Highway Systems." The series has been a cooperative effort of the FHWA's Offices of Traffic Operations, Highway Safety, and Highway Planning. The States have provided the data for this series through the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS), and its predecessors, administered by the Office of Highway Planning. Data from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHT3A) have been used to verify and supplement the HPMS data.

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A 7446 MF [electronic version only]
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Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Transportation DOT, Federal Highway Administration FHWA, 1984, 93 p., ref.

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