Interaction of road environment, vehicle and human factors in the causation of pedestrian accidents.

Author(s)
Lenard, J. & Hill, J.
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Abstract

The UK On-the-Spot project (OTS) completed over 1,500 in-depth investigations of road accidents during 2000-2003 and is continuing for a further 3 years. Cases were sampled from two regions of England using rotating shifts to cover all days of the week and all hours of the day and night. Research teams were dispatched to accidents notified to police during the shifts; arrival time to the scene of the accident was generally less than 20 minutes. The methodology of OTS includes sophisticated systems for describing accident causation and the interaction of road, vehicle and human factors. The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate these systems by reference to pedestrian accidents. This type of analysis is intended to provide an insight into how and why pedestrian accidents occur in order to assist the development of effective road, vehicle and behavioural countermeasures. (A) Paper to the 1st International ESAR Conference on 3rd/4th September 2004 at Hannover Medical School (Germany), Session: Accident Prevention and Causation - Part II. For the covering abstract see ITRD D355457.

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C 35256 (In: C 35229 S) /80 /82 /83 / ITRD E213172
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In: 1st International Conference on ESAR `Expert Symposium on Accident Research' : reports on the ESAR-conference on 3rd/4th September 2004 at Hannover Medical School, Berichte der Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen `Fahrzeugtechnik', Heft F 55, p. 250-255, 5 ref.

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